Quotes from Frantz Fanon

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.

I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.

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

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

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.

O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

Violence is man re-creating himself.

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

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.

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

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.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

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.

Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race" Sandra Forsythe

For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.

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

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.