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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