What matters is not to know the world but to change it. Frantz Fanon More Quotes by Frantz Fanon More Quotes From Frantz Fanon Violence is man re-creating himself. Frantz Fanon creating violence men 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. Frantz Fanon dislike-me circles color Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists. Frantz Fanon believe-in-me zombie believe I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects. Frantz Fanon soul here-i-am world Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem. Frantz Fanon problem said needs It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude. Frantz Fanon white-man white men Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions. Frantz Fanon imperfection today believe For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. Frantz Fanon achilles heal violence To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. Frantz Fanon psychology culture world Mastery of language affords remarkable power. Frantz Fanon mastery remarkable language For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white. Frantz Fanon destiny white men 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. Frantz Fanon style europe men I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo. Frantz Fanon intelligent heart men 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. Frantz Fanon lynching hate hatred To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. Frantz Fanon support civilization mean Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage. Frantz Fanon black-and-white religious latin We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition. Frantz Fanon individual assuming believe I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects. Frantz Fanon spirit desire world 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. Frantz Fanon color forever men The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards. Frantz Fanon adoption mother country
