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Frantz Fanon Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the french psychologist Frantz Fanon on topics like world, intelligent, black

  • In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

    — Frantz Fanon on travel
    96
  • Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

    — Frantz Fanon on fanaticism
    5
  • The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

    — Frantz Fanon on speeches
    3
  • 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 on racism
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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 on equality
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  • There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

    — Frantz Fanon on science
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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.

    — Frantz Fanon on language
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  • 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 on class
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  • About Frantz Fanon

    Name Frantz Fanon
    Quotes 8 quotations
    Nationality French
    Profession Psychologist
    Birthday October 16
    About Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author from Martinique. He was influential in the field of post-colonial studies and was perhaps the pre-eminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades.
    Top topics world, intelligent, black, language, bigger

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