Frantz Fanon Quotes

France, Religious Leader
July 20, 1925 – December, 6, 1961.

Frantz Fanon (/fəˈnɔːn/; French: [fʁɑ̃ts fanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer from the French colony of Martinique, whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, Pan-Africanist, and Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.

Also known as Philosopher, Revolutionary, Writer

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.

Frantz Fanon
- Black
- Universe
Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

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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.

Frantz Fanon
- May
- Black
- Destiny
He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

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

Frantz Fanon
For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Frantz Fanon
- Black
- Destiny
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
- Men
- Famous
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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- World
- Soul

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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- Culture
- Support
'Dirty nigger!' or simply 'Look! A Negro!'

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- Dirty
From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.

Frantz Fanon
- World
- Question
- Violence
The black man wants to be white. The white man slaves to reach a human level.

Frantz Fanon
- Black
At risk of arousing the resentment of my colored brothers, I will say that the black is not a man.

Frantz Fanon
- Black
- Risk
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.

Frantz Fanon
- People
- God
- She

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Frantz Fanon
- Violence
The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

Frantz Fanon
- People