Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone. Frantz Fanon More Quotes by Frantz Fanon More Quotes From Frantz Fanon 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. Frantz Fanon supportcivilizationmean The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere. Frantz Fanon white-mancolormen Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply. Frantz Fanon lightmothercountry Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent. Frantz Fanon weaponschoicesbelief 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. Frantz Fanon destinywhitemen 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. Frantz Fanon common-senseuniversity-degreesexpression The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often subconscious rather than deliberate ... The soul of the people is putrescent, and until that becomes regenerate and clean, no good work can be done. Frantz Fanon hypocrisysoulpeople No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free. Frantz Fanon human-rightsdestinymen There is a point at which methods devour themselves. Frantz Fanon methodscience I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity. I was made to give and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple. Frantz Fanon humilityriversgiving I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness Frantz Fanon wantdoorsworld Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro. Frantz Fanon guiltwhitecivilization [Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one. Frantz Fanon savageslooksthinking 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. Frantz Fanon work-outeuropemen When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men. Frantz Fanon intelligentteacherphilosophy 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 Frantz Fanon differencesworking-togetherrace My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.”• General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha on German South West Africa “At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction, it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect. Frantz Fanon fearlessafrican-tribesself 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. Frantz Fanon belovedhelpingreality One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it. Frantz Fanon ridiculemotherchildren Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. Frantz Fanon weaponchoicefervor
