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
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
-- Frantz Fanon
There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
-- Frantz Fanon
In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.
-- Frantz Fanon
I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things . . . and then I found I was an object in the midst of other objects.
-- Frantz Fanon
He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.
-- Frantz Fanon
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
When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point out that it is not because of my colour.
-- Frantz Fanon
What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.
-- Frantz Fanon
All forms of exploitation are identical because all of them are applied against the same 'object': man.
-- Frantz Fanon
Death is always close by. And what's important is not to know if you can avoid it, but to know that you have done the most possible to realise your ideas.
-- Frantz Fanon
The people came to realize that wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.
-- Frantz Fanon
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