Quotes by Frantz Fanon

About Frantz Fanon:

Frantz Omar Fanon was a Martinique-born Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, and a Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.
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One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

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I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

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...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

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To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I will be told, there is no wish, no intention to anger him. I grant this; but it is just this absence of wish, this lack of interest, this indifference, t...

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At first glance it seems strange that the attitude of the anti-Semite can be equated with that of the negrophobe. It was my philosophy teacher from the Antilles who reminded me one day: “When you hear someone insulting the Jews pay attention; he is...

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Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance...

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As I begin to recognise that the Negro is the symbol of sin, I catch myself hating the Negro. But then I recognise that I am a Negro. There are two ways out of this conflict. Either I ask others to pay no attention to my skin, or else I want them to ...

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Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

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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 civilizat...

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There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

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He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

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Violence is man re-creating himself.

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

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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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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

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To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

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Author Bio

  • NameFrantz Fanon
  • DescriptionMartiniquais writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary
  • AliasesFrantz Omar Fanon; Ibrahim Fanon
  • BornJuly 20, 1925
  • DiedDecember 6, 1961
  • CountryFrance; Algeria
  • ProfessionWriter; Philosopher; Psychiatrist; Essayist
  • WorksThe Wretched Of The Earth; A Dying Colonialism; Black Skin, White Masks