Frantz Fanon

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

"National culture is the oldest and most delegated form of culture."

"Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction."

"To speak is to exist absolutely for the other."

"I am not a slave to slavery that dehumanized my ancestors."

"The colonized is a being who has been crammed into narrow, well-defined place, an act of violence."

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

"A nation's culture lives in the hearts of its people."

"We must leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them."

"Consciousness is often the consciousness of the wretched."

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

"Individuality must assert itself through effort."

"Hunger is felt at the physiological level."

"Man is not merely the sum of his reflexes."

"The cause is effect is man himself."

"Disalienation will be the more rapid."

"Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry."

"The zone where the natives live is not complementary to the zone inhabited by the settlers."

"We must turn away from the seductive schemes of the West."

"The intellectual who is Arab is first of all Arab."

"Fighting is a form of communication."

"Love is the supreme emotion."

"The Negro is not. Any more than the white man."

"The colonial world is a world divided into two."

"Racism is a question of power."

"Culture is the widening of thought's field of action."

"The truth is that this society is rotten to the very core."

"We must prove that this narrow nationalism is a form of capitalism."

"The nation does not exist the nation-to-be."

"The people are not in the historical process it is the people who make history."