A Dying Colonialism Quotes

“Unveiling this woman is revealing her beauty; it is baring her secret, breaking her resistance, making her avail­able for adventure. Hiding the face is also disguising a secret; it is also creating a world of mystery, of the hidden. In a confused way, the European experiences his relation with the Algerian woman at a highly complex level. There is in it the will to bring this woman within his reach, to make her a possible ob­ject of possession.

This woman who sees without being seen frustrates the colo­nizer. There is no reciprocity. She does not yield herself, does not give herself, does not offer herself.”
― Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism

“There is not occupation of territory on the one hand and independence of persons on the other. It is the country as a whole, its history, its daily pulsation that are contested, disfigured, in the hope of a final destruction. Under these conditions, the individual's breathing is an observed, an occupied breathing. It is a combat breathing.”
― Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism

“It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.”
― Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism

“The Algerian fidaï, unlike the unbalanced anarchists made famous in literature, does not take dope. The fidaï does not need to be unaware of danger, to befog his consciousness, or to forgot. The "terrorist," from the moment he undertakes an assignment, allows death to enter into his soul. He has a rendezvous with death.The fidaï, on the other hand, has a rendezvous with the life of the Revolution, and with his own life. The fidaï is not one of the sacrificed. To be sure, he does not shrink before the possibility of losing his life or the independence of his country, but at no moment does he choose death.”
― Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism

“in a world where oppression is maintained by violence from above, it is only possible to liquidate it from violence from below.”
― Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism

“The new relations are not the result of one barbarism replacing another barbarism, of one crushing of man replacing another crushing of man... We want an Algeria open to all, in which every kind of genius may grow.”
― Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism