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Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.
Frantz Fanon
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Frantz Fanon
Age: 36 †
Born: 1925
Born: July 20
Died: 1961
Died: December 6
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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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The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.
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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.
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In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.
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Mastery of language affords remarkable power.
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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.
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Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
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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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The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.
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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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The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness
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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.
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