Quotes by Frantz Fanon

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

When we revolt it's not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

National liberation is a social reality.

To die for the national cause is to live forever.

The black man wants to be white. The white man slaves to reach a human level.

The native's work is to give material form to the tensions within the colonial society.

The human being who has lost his humanity is by definition a human being without any will or personality.

The peasantry is the most spontaneous and the most radical revolutionaries.

For the native, life can only spring up again out of the rotting corpse of the settler.

The ruling species is first and foremost an officer of the law.

There is a fact: White men consider themselves superior to black men.

The colonized man will first manifest this aggressiveness which has been deposited in his bones against his own people.

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

Man's condition, his realities, cannot be encapsulated in a concept.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

The negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

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

Violence is man re-creating himself.

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

I am not a potentiality of something; I am fully what I am.

The question the colonized must ask themselves is, in reality, the following: 'In reality, who am I?'

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.