quotes by Frantz Fanon

""Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity."
— Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth)

"Violence is man re-creating himself. "
— Frantz Fanon

""O my body, make of me always a man who questions!""
— Frantz Fanon (Black Skin, White Masks)

"Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.
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— Frantz Fanon

"For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity."
— Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth)

"And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength."
— Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth)

""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.""
— Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth)

"[T:]he unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps."
— Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth)

"Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well."
— Frantz Fanon

"To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I will be told, there is no wish, no intention to anger him. I grant this; but it is just this absence of wish, this lack of interest, this indifference, this automatic manner of classifying him, imprisoning him, primitivizing him, decivilizing him, that makes him angry.

If a man who speaks pidgin to a man of color or an Arab does not see anything wrong or evil in such behavior, it is because he has never stopped to think."
— Frantz Fanon (Black Skin, White Masks)