Frantz Fanon

The colonizer is a man who has been alienated from his own humanity, from his own emotions, from his own compassion.

The black man is a man who has been forced to internalize the negative image that the white man has of him.

The colonized is a man who has been forced to live in a state of constant contradiction, a state of constant conflict.

The colonizer is a man who has been forced to deny his own history, his own culture, his own identity.

The black man is a man who has been forced to choose between his own culture and the culture of the white man.

The black man is a man who has been forced to live in a state of constant alienation, a state of constant estrangement.

There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

When people like me, they like me “in spite of my color.” When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.

I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo.

I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.

Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.

The colonized discovers that his life, his breathing, the beating of his heart are the same as those of the colonist. [...] Practically, I don't give a damn.

The native is an oppressed person whose permanent dream is to become the persecutor.

For a colonized people, the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.

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.

The colonist is an exhibitionist.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

The well-known principle that all men are equal will be illustrated in the colonies from the moment that the colonized subject asserts he is the equal of the colonist.

The black man wants to be white. The white man slaves to reach a human level.