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• Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

  Frantz Fanon

  Believe, Imperfection, Today

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.42, Pluto Press

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• For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

  Frantz Fanon

  Destiny, Men, White

  "Black Skin, White Masks". Book by Frantz Fanon, 1952.

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• I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects.

  Frantz Fanon

  Desire, World, Spirit

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “Black skin, white masks”

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• The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

  Frantz Fanon

  Expression, People, Consciousness

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

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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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  Mean, Civilization, Support

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

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• The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mother, Country, Adoption

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

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• The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often subconscious rather than deliberate ... The soul of the people is putrescent, and until that becomes regenerate and clean, no good work can be done.

  Frantz Fanon

  People, Hypocrisy, Soul

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• 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

  Mother, Country, Light

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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• It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, White Man, White

  Frantz Fanon (1994). “A Dying Colonialism”, p.47, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Color, Forever

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “Black skin, white masks”

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• For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

  Frantz Fanon

  Violence, Achilles, Heal

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• No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

  Frantz Fanon

  Destiny, Men, Human Rights

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.230, Pluto Press

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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.

  Frantz Fanon

  Destiny, Men, White

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.12, Pluto Press

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• 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

  Humility, Rivers, Giving

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.90, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

  Frantz Fanon

  Science, Method

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.14, Pluto Press

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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.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Europe, Style

  The Wretched of the Earth conclusion (1961) (translation by Constance Farrington)

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• Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.

  Frantz Fanon

  Hate, Lynching, Hatred

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

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• Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.

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  Civilization, White, Guilt

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.194, Pluto Press

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• Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

  Frantz Fanon

  Choices, Weapons, Belief

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• 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.

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  Religious, Latin, Black And White

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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.

  Frantz Fanon

  Heart, Intelligent, Men

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.45, Pluto Press

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• [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

  Thinking, Savages, Looks

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• 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.

  Frantz Fanon

  University Degrees, Expression, Common Sense

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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.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Europe, Work Out

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• 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.

  Frantz Fanon

  Teacher, Philosophy, Intelligent

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