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Frantz Fanon Quotes
«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.»
Author: Frantz Fanon
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ascribe, ascribed, morphology, phenomenon, syntax, The Weight, weight
«In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.»
Author: Frantz Fanon
«He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.»
Author: Frantz Fanon
«For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Frantz Fanon
«Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.»
Author: Frantz Fanon
«There is a point at which methods devour themselves.»
Author: Frantz Fanon
«Violence is man re-creating himself.»
Author: Frantz Fanon
«However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Frantz Fanon