List of Frantz Fanon Quotes

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Frantz Fanon
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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.
Reality Helping Beloved
One avoids creolisms. some families completely forbid creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.
Mother Children Ridicule
My intimate knowledge of many central african tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.”• general adrian dietrich lothar von trotha on german south west africa “at the level of individuals, 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.
Self African Tribes Fearless
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
Race Differences Working Together
I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness
Doors World Want
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.
Men Europe Work Out
When a bachelor of philosophy from the antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color i say that philosophy has never saved anyone. when someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men i say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
Teacher Philosophy Intelligent
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.
University Degrees Expression Common Sense
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.
Religious Latin Black And White
[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.
Thinking Savages Looks
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.
Heart Intelligent Men
There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
Science Method
  • Born: July 20, 1925
  • Died: December 6, 1961
  • Occupation: Psychiatrist
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