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Frantz Fanon
Age: 36 †
Born: 1925
Born: July 20
Died: 1961
Died: December 6
Essayist
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Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
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Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.
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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.
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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
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Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone.
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For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.
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Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.
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National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.
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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.
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The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
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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.
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The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.
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We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.
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When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.
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In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.
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It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.
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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.
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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.
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Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
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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.
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