Frantz Fanon Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

  Frantz Fanon

  Culture, Breathe, Reason

  "The Wretched of the Earth". Book by Frantz Fanon, 1961.

• Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality-finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Mother, People

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.18, Pluto Press

• To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

  Frantz Fanon

  Psychology, Culture, World

• 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

  Country, Mother, Writing

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

• If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

  Frantz Fanon

  Bridges, Justice, Diversity

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

• To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mean, Civilization, Support

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.17, Pluto Press

• 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

  Mean, Civilization, Support

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.17, Pluto Press

• 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.

  Frantz Fanon

  Hate, Lynching, Justice

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.53, Pluto Press

• 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

  Religious, Latin, Black And White

• 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.

  Frantz Fanon

  Essence, Culture, Deterioration

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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