Frases de Frantz Fanon

“Todo espectador es un cobarde o un traidor.”

“El mundo colonial es un mundo en compartimientos.”

“Desde hace algún tiempo se habla mucho de torturas aplicadas por los soldados franceses a patriotas argelinos. Personalidades extranjeras, y entre ellas francesas, han condenado estas prácticas. No se puede al mismo tiempo querer el mantenimiento de la nación francesa en Argelia y condenar los métodos empleados en ella. La tortura en Argelia no es un accidente, o un error, o una falta. El colonialismo no se comprende sin la posibilidad de torturar, de violar o de matar. La tortura es una modalidad de las relaciones entre ocupantes y ocupados. Los policías franceses, que durante mucho tiempo han sido los únicos en practicar estas torturas, no lo ignoran.”

“Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”

“The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.”

“O my body, make of me always a man who questions!”

“What matters is not to know the world but to change it.”

“The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.”

“They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.”

“The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist.”

“When the native hears a speech about Western culture he pulls out his knife—or at least he makes sure it is within reach. The violence with which the supremacy of white values is affirmed and the aggressiveness which has permeated the victory of these values over the ways of life and of thought of the native mean that, in revenge, the native laughs in mockery when Western values are mentioned in front of him.”

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

“The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.”

“In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”

“There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.”

“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”

“Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.”

“Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.”

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

“Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.”

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

“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions”

“Violence is man re-creating himself.”

“Mastery of language affords remarkable power.”

“A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.”

“Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.”

“I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.”

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

“Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.”

“The black is a black man; that is, as the result of a series of aberrations of affect, he is rooted at the core of a universe from which he must be extricated.”

“From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.”

“At risk of arousing the resentment of my colored brothers, I will say that the black is not a man.”