131 Quotes by Frantz Fanon

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.