Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Frantz Fanon (Algerian Political Theorist)

Frantz Omar Fanon (1925–61,) also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a French-Martinique psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary writer. He was a proponent of Algerian Independence and the Third World Revolution. His vivid French colonialism experience in Algeria inspired his theory of violent anti-colonialist struggle and revolutionary humanism.

Born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, Fanon was educated as a psychiatrist in France. Sent to work at the Blida psychiatric hospital in Algeria, he changed sides and joined the rebels. He excoriated the extensive effects of French colonialism and racism in his Peau noire, masques blancs (1952, ‘Black Skin, White Masks.’)

Fanon’s study of the Algerian revolution, Les Damnes de la Terre (1961, ‘The Wretched of the Earth,’) became influential in post-colonial studies. He became the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His achievements have spurred anti-colonial liberation campaigns for more than four decades.

Fanon’s work drew on a wide array of poetry, psychology, philosophy, and political theory. Its influence across the global South has been extensive, deep, and enduring. His other notable works include L’an V de la révolution Algérienne (1959 ‘Collections of essays, A Dying Colonialism’) and Pour la revolution Africaine (1964, ‘Toward the African Revolution.’)

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There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
Frantz Fanon
Topics: Science

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

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

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.
Frantz Fanon
Topics: Racism

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.
Frantz Fanon
Topics: Language

In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.
Frantz Fanon
Topics: Travel

The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist.
Frantz Fanon

Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate.
Frantz Fanon

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.
Frantz Fanon
Topics: Class

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.
Frantz Fanon
Topics: Weapon, One liners, Fanaticism

When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
Frantz Fanon
Topics: Equality

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
Topics: Language

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