Frantz Fanon

The colonized underdeveloped man is a political creature in the most global sense of the term.

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

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

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

The black man has no ontological resistance in the eyes of the white man.

The colonized world is a world divided in two.

For the colonized subject, objectivity is always a weapon directed against him.

The settler's town is a strongly-built town, all of stone and steel. It is a brightly-lit town; the streets are paved with asphalt, and the garbage-cans swallow all the leavings, all the wet and dirty garbage which the settler's refuse to touch. The settler's feet are never visible, except perhaps in the sea; but there you're sure to find no dirt. The settler's town is a town of white people, of foreigners.

The colonized man is an envious man. And this is one of the reasons why the settler, in his heart of hearts, is always on the alert: 'They want to take our place.' It is true that there is no native who does not dream at least once a day of setting himself up in the settler's place.

The naked truth of decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

Violence alone, perpetrated by the people, violence organized and educated by its leaders, makes it possible for the masses to understand social truths and gives the key to them.

At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.

The people who are not free must use the only means at their disposal, which is force.

European civilization and its values are not worth the trouble.

The most urgent thing today is the liberation of the national territory.

Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.

The violence of the colonized, far from being a simple reflex, is inscribed in the very nature of colonial oppression.

The black man is not a man. The black man is a man of the forest, a man of the jungle, a man of the bush, a man of the cotton plantation.