131 Quotes by Frantz Fanon

There is a psychological phenomenon that consists in the belief that the world will open to the extent to which frontiers are broken down.

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother-country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

ô mon corps, fait toujours de moi un homme qui s'interroge.

The native is always on the alert, for since he can only make out with difficulty the many symbols of the colonial world, he is never sure whether or not he has crossed the frontier. Confronted with a world ruled by the settler, the native is always presumed guilty.

My final prayer:O my body, make of me always a man who questions!"- Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks

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.

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

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.

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