F Fanon Quotes

#1. The colonized, underdeveloped man is a political creature in the most global sense of the term. Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth

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

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#3. Superiority? Inferiority?
Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?

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#4. One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

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#5. 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.

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#6. The militant girl, in adopting new patterns of conduct, could not be judged by traditional standards. Old values, sterile and infantile phobias disappeared.

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#7. To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

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

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#9. It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

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#10. Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

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#11. Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

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#12. Violence is man re-creating himself.

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#13. The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder.

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#14. For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

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

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

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#17. Not so long ago the Earth numbered 2 billion inhabitants, i.e., 500 million men and 1.5 billion "natives." The first possessed the Word, the others borrowed it.

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#18. There is a dramatic conflict in what is commonly called the human sciences. Should we postulate a typical human reality and describe its psychic modalities, taking into account only the imperfections, or should we not rather make a constant, solid endeavor to understand man in an everchanging light?

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#19. Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone. I shouted my laughter to the
stars.

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#20. I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects.

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#21. 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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#22. Given Fanon's subsequent traumatic encounter with the white gaze ('Look, maman, a negro'), it is ironic that it was he and Manville who gazed at the children and could not take their eyes off them. They had never seen a girl with truly red hair, or such a blond boy, and they were fascinated.

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#23. In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

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#24. Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions!

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

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#26. The misfortune of man is that he was once a child.

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

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#28. For me words have a charge. I find myself incapable of escaping the bite of a word, the vertigo of a question-mark.

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#29. I do battle for the creation
of a human world - that ism
a world of reciprocal recognition.

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#30. Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race Sandra Forsythe

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