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 More Quotes by Frantz Fanon More Quotes From Frantz Fanon 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. Frantz Fanon essentials land people And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength. Frantz Fanon class pay country ...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it. Frantz Fanon burden idiot world Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions Frantz Fanon europe two america 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. Frantz Fanon mass citizens reality Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand. Frantz Fanon conditions want people What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary. Frantz Fanon air men thinking The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man. Frantz Fanon dream sleep men O my body, make of me always a man who questions! Frantz Fanon body men 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. Frantz Fanon supremacy white-man men 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. Frantz Fanon white men people In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself. Frantz Fanon creating world They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement. Frantz Fanon reform doe mean Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone. Frantz Fanon used A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language. Frantz Fanon language men world Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being man. I cannot disassociate myself from the future that is proposed for my brother. Frantz Fanon brother white men Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture. Frantz Fanon deterioration essence culture Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Frantz Fanon lynching hate justice The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder. Frantz Fanon mask language evil The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people. Frantz Fanon consciousness expression people
