#Frantz Fanon

Decolonization implies the urgent need to thoroughly challenge the colonial situation. Its definition can, if we want

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Every time a man has brought victory to the dignity of the spirit, every time a man has said no to an attempt to enslave

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The unemployed and the starving do not lay claim to truth. They do not say they represent the truth because they are the

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Fighting for the freedom of one’s people is not the only necessity. As long as the fight goes on you must enlighten not only

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The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is

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We will not accept aid for the underdeveloped countries as “charity.” Such aid must be considered the final stage of a

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No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

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We must not cultivate the spirit of the exceptional or look for the hero, another form of leader. We must elevate the people,...

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The colonized can see right away if decolonization is taking place or not: The minimum demand is that the last become the first.

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I’m not the bearer of absolute truths. No fundamental inspiration has flashed across my mind. I honestly think, however, it’

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Superiority? Inferiority? Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other? … At the end of this

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

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