Frantz Fanon Quotes
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The black is a black man;that is, as the result of a series of aberrations of affect, he is rooted at the core of a universe from which he must be extricated.
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Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.
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He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.
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However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
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There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
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For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
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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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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.
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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.
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The black man wants to be white. The white man slaves to reach a human level.
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'Dirty nigger!' or simply 'Look! A Negro!'
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At risk of arousing the resentment of my colored brothers, I will say that the black is not a man.
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The Church in the colonies is the white people’s Church, the foreigner’s Church. She does not call the native to God’s ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.
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From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.