Frantz Fanon Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

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

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, World, Language

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

• 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

• To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

  Frantz Fanon

  Psychology, Culture, World

• Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mastery, Language, Remarkable

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

• I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mean, Civilization, Support

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.17, Pluto Press

• The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

  Frantz Fanon

  Evil, Language, Mask

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