Frantz Fanon

"The colonial situation is a Manichaean situation."

"We must rid ourselves of the habit of thinking in terms set by the colonizer."

"Economic independence must follow political independence."

"The intellectual must address himself to his people."

"Racism is the racial form of imperialism."

"National culture is not folklore."

"Every revolution carries within it a new humanism."

"We must create a new vocabulary appropriate to our struggle."

"The colonized man is told that surrender is inevitable."

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

"This is our responsibility, and our role is to act as midwife to this new world."

"The national struggle is not economic or cultural or political."

"We must stop deceiving ourselves about our capacity to resist."

"The real leap forward is here, and it is psychological."

"The colonist is not simply the man who has decided to live on colonial territory."

"Education of the masses is not to be viewed merely as a means of gaining formal knowledge."

"The colonized understand that the colonizer's power is never total."

"Man is free to the extent that he is recognized as such by another."

"The colonized man liberates himself in and through violence."

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

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

"The native intellectual who takes up arms to defend his nation is not writing an adventure story accepted in two weeks by the newspapers."

"National culture is the collective memory of the people."

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

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

"The look of the white man, a white gaze, an optical organ phosphorescent as a result of all the powers accumulated by the colonizer."

"Individuality must be reconciled with solidarity; the private venture must not be turned into a national institution."

"Consciousness awakens only when wounded."

"The uprising of the colonized is soaked in blood from its inception."

"Decolonization is always a violent event."