Frantz Fanon

Frases de Frantz Fanon

• “The Black man is not. No more than the White man. Both must turn away from the inhuman voices of their respective ancestors.”

• “Decolonization is, quite simply, the replacing of a certain 'species' of men by another 'species' of men. But this creation owes nothing to any supernatural power.”

• “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.”

• “I am not a prisoner of History. I should not seek there for the meaning of my destiny.”

• “The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon... or too late.”

• “The colonized man is an oppressed person who permanently dreams of becoming the persecutor.”

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

• “The colonial world is a world cut into compartments.”

• “When an uprising breaks out in a Black country, I ask myself: what do they want?”

• “For the colonized subject, objectivity is always directed against them.”