131 Quotes by Frantz Fanon

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.

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

Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

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.

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.