Frantz Fanon Quotes

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• When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

  Frantz Fanon

  Culture, Breathe, Reason

  "The Wretched of the Earth". Book by Frantz Fanon, 1961.

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• Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.

  Frantz Fanon

  Faith, Atheist, Strong

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• Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

  Frantz Fanon

  Fruit, Wealth, Results

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

  Frantz Fanon

  Land, Mind, Germs

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• Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

  Frantz Fanon

  Self, Fearless, Despair

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mean, Responsibility, Men

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

  Frantz Fanon

  Generations, Missions, Betray

  Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

  Frantz Fanon

  What Matters, World, Social Justice

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• Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality-finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Mother, People

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.18, Pluto Press

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• I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.

  Frantz Fanon

  Song, Heart, Intelligent

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.27, Grove Press

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• The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

  Frantz Fanon

  Believe, Worst, Always Believe

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• If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

  Frantz Fanon

  Bridges, Justice, Diversity

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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• A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

  Frantz Fanon

  Party, Government, People

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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• The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.

  Frantz Fanon

  Struggle, Class, People

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

  Frantz Fanon

  Creating, World

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.229, Pluto Press

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• National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

  Frantz Fanon

  People, Restoration, Renaissance

  The Wretched of the Earth "Concerning Violence" (1961) (translation by Constance Farrington)

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• He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

  Frantz Fanon

  Reluctant

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.218, Pluto Press

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• For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.

  Frantz Fanon

  Land, People, Essentials

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

  Frantz Fanon

  Giving, Colonialism, Realizing

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

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  Men, White Man, Inferiority

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.60, Pluto Press

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• The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

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  Block, What Matters, Issues

  Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.

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  Here I Am, Soul, World

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.89, Grove Press

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• A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

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  Men, World, Language

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.18, Pluto Press

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• Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

  Frantz Fanon

  People, Want, Conditions

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• ...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

  Frantz Fanon

  World, Idiot, Burden

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.9, Pluto Press

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