Top 100 Quotes About Frantz
#1. The colonized, underdeveloped man is a political creature in the most global sense of the term. Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
#2. My final prayer:
O my body, make of me always a man who questions!"
- Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
#3. We're the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.
Chris Frantz
#4. She would stay strong. She would remember the promises in Scripture. She would hope and pray and not give away.
Laura Frantz
#5. No matter her heartache, she'd begun to embrace whatever was handed to her, shrugging with a broody spirit to enter fully within.
Laura Frantz
#7. It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.
Chris Frantz
#8. It is true that if care is taken to use only a language that it's understood by graduates in law and economics, you can easily prove that the masses have to be managed from above.
Frantz Fanon
#9. Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.
Frantz Fanon
#10. Superiority? Inferiority?
Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?
Frantz Fanon
#11. One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.
Frantz Fanon
#12. That she was thirsty for heavenly things, there could be no doubt.
Laura Frantz
#13. When you meet the man you want to be with for life, you'll want to run to him and not away from him.
Laura Frantz
#14. 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
#15. Every house, to be a true home, needs a mistress.
Laura Frantz
#16. The militant girl, in adopting new patterns of conduct, could not be judged by traditional standards. Old values, sterile and infantile phobias disappeared.
Frantz Fanon
#17. 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.
Frantz Fanon
#18. I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.
Chris Frantz
#19. A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
Frantz Fanon
#20. Sophie would be the first to share his home. His life. Normalcy. As normal as two broken people could make it. Guilt nagged him that they were coming together on such odd terms. Sophie Menzies deserved far more. He was getting far more than he deserved.
Laura Frantz
#21. It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.
Frantz Fanon
#22. Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
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#23. Captain Jack said he'd take some of you if he couldn't have all of you," he said, the mirth in his eyes making light of her ire. "And you let him?" "Seems a small price to pay to keep you." "When? How?" she sputtered. "Near dawn, with his scalping knife." "While I slept?
Laura Frantz
#24. 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.
Frantz Fanon
#26. The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder.
Frantz Fanon
#27. Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul. Benjamin Franklin
Laura Frantz
#28. 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.
Frantz Fanon
#29. A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.
Frantz Fanon
#30. In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.
Frantz Fanon
#31. Across the way there lies a wee lass, no' yet five years old, suffering from a fever. Her name is Sadie Floyd. I want you tae go with me tae see her.
Laura Frantz
#32. 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.
Frantz Fanon
#33. 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?
Frantz Fanon
#34. Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone. I shouted my laughter to the
stars.
Frantz Fanon
#35. Run away with me - tonight." Above them the brilliant moon beckoned, promising to light their way. Her voice sounded queer and far off, weak with longing and despair. "No runnin' off like Ma done, Simon.
Laura Frantz
#36. 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.
Frantz Fanon
#37. The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.
Frantz Fanon
#38. I'm kind of a social person and I enjoy corresponding with people and checking out their Facebook pages. And it really doesn't take much time. Ten minutes in the morning, 10 minutes at night and a little bit during the day. It's just something I really enjoy.
Chris Frantz
#39. He'd have to keep a careful watch on her once the polemen came ashore. These free-spirited Frenchmen, whom he liked well enough, became absolute devils when drunk, their antics so spectacularly sinful they made his most hardened soldiers blush.
Laura Frantz
#40. She could no longer remember what Ambrose looked like, or smelled like, or was like. All she knew was Cassius Clayton McLinn. All she wanted began and ended with him.
Laura Frantz
#41. As soon as she set foot outside, she could hear the empty conversation and laughter resume. Like sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.
Laura Frantz
#42. That man is in love with you, Roxanna Rowan. Why don't you see it?
Laura Frantz
#43. 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.
Frantz Fanon
#44. Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions!
Frantz Fanon
#45. Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
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#46. The misfortune of man is that he was once a child.
Frantz Fanon
#47. Haste and panic were poor traveling companions, and this trip he'd reaped the consequences in spades.
Laura Frantz
#48. The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.
Frantz Fanon
#49. I thought you'd gone." "I had to turn back." "Why?" "All that matters is right here.
Laura Frantz
#50. For me words have a charge. I find myself incapable of escaping the bite of a word, the vertigo of a question-mark.
Frantz Fanon
#51. I do battle for the creation
of a human world - that ism
a world of reciprocal recognition.
Frantz Fanon
#52. Mastery of language affords remarkable power.
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#54. I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.
Frantz Fanon
#55. He turned back to her. "And may I have the pleasure of the first dance, Miss Rowan?" She gave him a slightly wide-eyed stare, while his eyes narrowed and crinkled at the corners, full of mischief. Mercy . . . he does work quite a spell.
Laura Frantz
#56. There is an extraordinary power in the possession of a language.
Frantz Fanon
#57. One of life's most painful mysteries was that time moved on, with or without you. Those left behind loved and laughed and resumed living as if you'd never been at all.
Laura Frantz
#58. Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being.
Kittie Frantz
#59. She'd already memorized the short Psalm and was hungry for more. Indeed, each word seemed woven into her soul the way the weaver wove his wares, taking the barest threads of her faith and making something beautiful and enduring as fine cloth deep inside her.
Laura Frantz
#60. What matters is not so much the color of your skin as the power you serve and the millions you betray.
Frantz Fanon
#61. We thank Thee, Lord, for happy hearts, for rain and sunny weather. We thank Thee, Lord for this our food, and that we are together. Amen.
Laura Frantz
#62. As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs.
Chris Frantz
#63. Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.
Frantz Fanon
#64. 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
#65. Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.
Chris Frantz
#66. Some matters you have little control over. Love is one of them.
Laura Frantz
#67. 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.
Frantz Fanon
#68. I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity. I was made to give and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple.
Frantz Fanon
#69. When we revolt it's not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe
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#70. 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
#71. Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions
Frantz Fanon
#72. They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.
Frantz Fanon
#73. There is not that much of a generation gap these days.
Chris Frantz
#74. Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.
Frantz Fanon
#75. And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Laura Frantz
#76. Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being man. I cannot disassociate myself from the future that is proposed for my brother.
Frantz Fanon
#77. 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
#79. Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.
Frantz Fanon
#80. We used to really feel like the band was our family.
Chris Frantz
#81. Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.
Frantz Fanon
#82. We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.
Frantz Fanon
#83. To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.
Frantz Fanon
#84. Did she have to be so downright fetching in her refusal?
Taking Annie back, he struck a sterner pose in order to keep all comers at bay.
Laura Frantz
#85. Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
Frantz Fanon
#86. Lael Catherine Click, save every dance for me. Simon Henry Hayes.
Laura Frantz
#87. I'd rather wear out than rust out, he'd once said years before, echoing the words of the evangelist George Whitefield.
Laura Frantz
#88. 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
#89. [Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one.
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#90. Color is nothing, I do not even notice it, I know only one thing, which is the purity of my conscience and the whiteness of my soul.
Frantz Fanon
#91. We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more.
Chris Frantz
#92. The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.
Frantz Fanon
#93. War had stolen much, including an appreciation of the seasons.
Laura Frantz
#94. Please, I don't want to fall in love with you. Aye, he could honor that. But she'd not said anything about him falling in love with her.
Laura Frantz
#95. Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.
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#96. He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.
Frantz Fanon
#97. When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.
Frantz Fanon
#99. Be less the general and more a father. Hold her close at night and chase the shadows away.
Laura Frantz
#100. But home wasn't a place, she was coming to realize. Home was family. Home was right here, right now. With these God-given people.
Laura Frantz
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