Frantz Fanon Quotes


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. - Frantz Fanon


Violence is man re-creating himself. - Frantz Fanon


There is a point at which methods devour themselves. - Frantz Fanon


The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often subconscious rather than deliberate ... The soul of the people is putrescent, and until that becomes regenerate and clean, no good work can be done. - Frantz Fanon


In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself. - Frantz Fanon


I made up my mind to laugh myself to tears, but laughter had become impossible. - 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. - Frantz Fanon


He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me. - Frantz Fanon


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