Frantz Fanon

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

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

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.

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

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

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

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it then that bridge ought not to be built.

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

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.

When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point out that it is not because of my colour.

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