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1. "The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps." ~ Frantz Fanon
2. "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
3. "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
4. "They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement." ~ Frantz Fanon
5. "Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists." ~ Frantz Fanon
6. "When we revolt it's not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe" ~ Frantz Fanon
7. "A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language." ~ Frantz Fanon
8. "Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity." ~ Frantz Fanon
9. "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
10. "The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be." ~ Frantz Fanon
11. "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
12. "In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself." ~ Frantz Fanon
13. "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
14. "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
15. "To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture." ~ Frantz Fanon
16. "Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions!" ~ Frantz Fanon
17. "Once their rage explodes, they recover their lost coherence, they experience self-knowledge through reconstruction of themselves; from afar we see their war as the triumph of barbarity; but it proceeds on its own to gradually emancipate the fighter and progressively eliminates the colonial darkness inside and out. As soon as it begins it is merciless. Either one must remain terrified or become terrifying—which means surrendering to the dissociations of a fabricated life or conquering the unity of one's native soil. When the peasants lay hands on a gun, the old myths fade, and one by one the taboos are overturned: a fighter's weapon is his humanity. For in the first phase of the revolt killing is a necessity: killing a European is killing two birds with one stone, eliminating in one go oppressor and oppressed: leaving one man dead and the other man free;" ~ Frantz Fanon
18. "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
19. "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
20. "He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me." ~ Frantz Fanon
21. "Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent." ~ Frantz Fanon
22. "Violence is man re-creating himself." ~ Frantz Fanon
23. "[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
24. "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
25. "ô mon corps, fait toujours de moi un homme qui s'interroge." ~ Frantz Fanon
26. "The unveiled Algerian woman, who assumed an increasingly important place in revolutionary action, developed her personality, discovered the exalting realm of responsibility. The freedom of the Algerian people from then on became identified with woman's liberation, with her entry into history. This woman who, in the avenues of Algier or of Constantine, would carry the grenades or the submachine-gun chargers, this woman who tomorrow would be outraged, violated, tortured, could not put herself back into her former state of mind and relive her behaviour of the past; this woman who was writing the heroic pages of Algerian history was, in so doing, bursting the bounds of the narrow in which she had lived without responsibility, and was at the same time participating in the destruction of colonialism and in the birth of a new woman." ~ Frantz Fanon
27. "The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother-country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves." ~ Frantz Fanon
28. "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
29. "The militant girl, in adopting new patterns of conduct, could not be judged by traditional standards. Old values, sterile and infantile phobias disappeared." ~ Frantz Fanon
30. "I speak of the Christian religion, and no one need be astonished. 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. And as we know, in this matter many are called but few chosen." ~ Frantz Fanon
31. "Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone." I shouted my laughter to thestars." ~ Frantz Fanon
32. "Chaque fois qu'un homme a fait triompher la dignité de l'esprit, chaque fois qu'un homme a dit non à une tentative d'asservissement de son semblable, je me suis senti solidaire de son acte." ~ Frantz Fanon
33. "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
34. "The Algerian fidaï, unlike the unbalanced anarchists made famous in literature, does not take dope. The fidaï does not need to be unaware of danger, to befog his consciousness, or to forgot. The "terrorist," from the moment he undertakes an assignment, allows death to enter into his soul. He has a rendezvous with death.The fidaï, on the other hand, has a rendezvous with the life of the Revolution, and with his own life. The fidaï is not one of the sacrificed. To be sure, he does not shrink before the possibility of losing his life or the independence of his country, but at no moment does he choose death." ~ Frantz Fanon
35. "My final prayer:O my body, make of me always a man who questions!"- Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks" ~ Frantz Fanon
36. "Erkek kardes, kiz kardes, yoldas, sömürge burjuvazisi tarafindan yasaklanan sözcüklerdir, çünkü ona göre kardesim cüzdanimdir, yoldasim çevirdigim dolaplardir." ~ Frantz Fanon
37. "Lorsque, parvenu à l'apogée du rut avec son peuple quel qu'il fût et quel qu'il soit, l'intellectuel décide de retrouver le chemin de la quotidienneté, il ne ramène de son aventure que des formules terriblement infécondes. Il privilégie les coutumes, les traditions, les modes d'apparaître et sa quête forcée, douloureuse ne fait qu'évoquer une banale recherche d'exotisme. C'est la période où les intellectuels chantent les moindres déterminations du panorama indigène. Le boubou se trouve sacralisé, les chaussures parisiennes ou italiennes délaissées au profit des babouches. Le langage du dominateur écorche soudain les lèvres. Retrouver son peuple c'est quelquefois dans cette période vouloir être nègre, non un nègre pas comme les autres mais un véritable nègre, un chien de nègre, tel que le veut le Blanc. Retrouver son peuple c'est se faire bicot, se faire le plus indigène possible, le plus méconnaissable, c'est se couper les ailes qu'on avait laissé pousser." ~ Frantz Fanon
38. "Nous pensons que la lutte organisée et consciente entreprise par un peuple colonisé pour rétablir la souveraineté de la nation constitue la manifestation la plus pleinement culturelle qui soit. Ce n'est pas uniquement le succès de la lutte qui donne par la suite validité et vigueur à la culture, il n'y a pas de mise en hibernation de la culture pendant le combat. La lutte elle-même, dans son déroulement, dans son processus interne dévelppe les différentes directions de la culture et en esquisse de nouvelles. La lutte de libération ne restitue pas à la culture nationale sa valeur et ses contours anciens. Cette lutte qui vise à la une redistribution fondamentale des rapports entre les hommes ne peut laisser intacts ni les formes ni les contenus culturels de ce peuple. Après la lutte il n'y a pas seulement disparition du colonialisme mais aussi disparition du colonisé." ~ Frantz Fanon
39. "Voici des siècles que l'Europe a stoppé la progression des autres hommes et les a asservis à ses desseins et à sa gloire ; des siècles qu'au nom d'une prétendue "aventure spirituelle" elle étouffe la quasi-totalité de l'humanité. Regardez-la aujourd'hui basculer entre la désintégration atomique et la désintégration spirituelle/" ~ Frantz Fanon
40. "It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude." ~ Frantz Fanon
41. "Qu'est-ce donc en réalité que cette violence ? Nous l'avons vu, c'est l'intuition qu'ont les masses colonisées que leur libération doit se faire, et ne peut se faire que par la force." ~ Frantz Fanon
42. "On ira même jusqu'à même jusqu'à introduire dans les rapports colon-colonisé des locutions telles que Monsieur ou Madame. On multipliera les politesses, les prévenance. Concrêtement, le colonisé a l'impression d'assister à un changement. Le colonisé n'a pas pris seulement les armes parce qu'il mourrait de faim et qu'il assistait à la désagrégation de sa société, mais aussi parce que le colon le considérait comme une bête, le traitait comme une bête, se montre très sensible à ces mesures. La haine est désamorcée par ces trouvailles psychologiques (...) Le colonisé risque à tout instant de se laisser désarmer par n'importe quelle concession." ~ Frantz Fanon
43. "Parce qu'elle n'a pas d'idées, parce qu'elle est fermée sur elle-même, coupée du peuple, minée par son incapacité congénitale à penser l'ensemble des problèmes en fonction de la totalité de la nation, la bourgeoisie nationale va assumer le rôle de gérant des entreprises de l'Occident et pratiquement irganisera son pays en lupanar de l'Europe." ~ Frantz Fanon
44. "Maintenant qu'ils ont rempli leur mission historique qui était d'amener la bourgeoisie au pouvoir, ils sont fermement invités à se retirer afin que la bourgeoisie puisse calmement remplir sa propre mission. Or, nous avons vu que la bourgeoisie nationale des pays sous-developpés est incapable de remplir une quelconque mission. Au bout de quelques années, la désagrégation du parti devient manifeste et tout observateur, même superficiel, peut se rendre compte que l'ancien parti, devenu aujourd'hui squelettique, ne sert qu'à immobiliser le peuple. Le parti, qui pendant le combat avait attiré à lui l'ensemble de la nation, se décompose. Les intellectuels , qui à la veille de l'indépendance avaient rallié le parti, confirment par leur comportement actuel que ce ralliement n'avait d'autre but que de participer à la distribution du gâteau de l'indépendance. Le parti devient un moyen de réussite individuelle." ~ Frantz Fanon
45. "La politisation des masses n'est pas la mobilisation trois ou quatre fois l'an de dizaines ou de centaines de milliers d'hommes et de femmes. Ces meetings, ces rassemblements spectaculaires s'apparentent à la vieille tactique d'avant l'indépendance où l'on exhibait ses force pour se prouver à soi-même et aux autres qu'on avait le peuple avec soi. La politisation des masses se propose non d'infantiliser les masses mais de les rendre adultes." ~ Frantz Fanon
46. "personne ne peut retirer son épingle du jeu. Tout le monde sera abattu ou torturé et, dans le cadre de la nation indépendante, tout le monde aura faim et participera au marasme. Le combat collectif suppose une responsabilité collective à la base et une responsabilité collégiale au sommet. Oui, il faut compromettre tout le monde dans le combat pour le salut commun. Il n'y a pas de mains pures, il n'y a pas d'innocents, pas de spectateurs. Nous sommes tous en train de nous salir les mains dans les marais de notre sol et le vide effroyable de nos cerveaux. Tout spectateur est un lâche ou un traitre." ~ Frantz Fanon
47. "The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the hope of a future national culture. In the sphere of psycho-affective equilibrium it is responsible for an important change in the native. Perhaps we haven't sufficiently demonstrated that colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures, and destroys it. This work of devaluing pre-colonial history takes on a dialectical significance today." ~ Frantz Fanon
48. "To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I will be told, there is no wish, no intention to anger him. I grant this; but it is just this absence of wish, this lack of interest, this indifference, this automatic manner of classifying him, imprisoning him, primitivizing him, decivilizing him, that makes him angry.If a man who speaks pidgin to a man of color or an Arab does not see anything wrong or evil in such behavior, it is because he has never stopped to think." ~ Frantz Fanon
49. "As I begin to recognise that the Negro is the symbol of sin, I catch myself hating the Negro. But then I recognise that I am a Negro. There are two ways out of this conflict. Either I ask others to pay no attention to my skin, or else I want them to be aware of it. I try then to find value for what is bad--since I have unthinkingly conceded that the black man is the colour of evil. In order to terminate this neurotic situation, in which I am compelled to choose an unhealthy, conflictual solution, fed on fantasies, hostile, inhuman in short, I have only one solution: to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me, to reject the two terms that are equally unacceptable, and through one human being, to reach out for the universal. When the Negro dives--in other words, goes under--something remarkable occurs." ~ Frantz Fanon
50. "At first glance it seems strange that the attitude of the anti-Semite can be equated with that of the negrophobe. It was my philosophy teacher from the Antilles who reminded me one day: "When you hear someone insulting the Jews pay attention; he is talking about you." And I believed at the time he was universally right, meaning that I was responsible in my body and my soul for the fate reserved for my brother. Since then, I have understood that what he meant quite simply was the anti-Semite is inevitably a negrophobe." ~ Frantz Fanon
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