Frantz Fanon

"The colonizer is never close to the colonized except to give orders."

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

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

"Combat is the only experience that matters."

"The psychiatrist who believes he can treat North African patients while remaining ignorant of the national problem is deceiving himself."

"The native's world is a Manichaean world, divided into compartments, white and black."

"Humanism has to be rooted in the history of peoples."

"Fervor is the rhythm of the masses when they are told they are fighting for their lives."

"The intellectual must disengage himself from the ready-made formulas of generalized humanism."

"To leave the Manichaean world is to refuse the two camps in which it had been split up."

"The history of colonization is a history of broken consciences."

"Colonialism and imperialism have not paid their debt when they withdraw their police forces and their troops."

"The colonized discovers that his life is an unstable equilibrium between the possible and the impossible."

"The national bourgeoisie should not be allowed to have hooks into the management of the state apparatus."

"Spontaneity is good, but it is not enough; it must be enriched by culture."

"The intellectual is an intermediary between the nation and its leadership."

"Where formerly we had relations of man to man, we now see only crude relations of strength."

"The colonial world is a world cut in two, divided by a high, solid wall."

"The colonized man will be happy the day that Western values are dispersed."

"A national culture under colonial domination is a contested culture whose destruction is pursued."

"We must turn away, once and for all, from the old Europe, and we must work and think with vigor."

"The colonized learns quickly that naked force is the only language the colonizer understands."

"The national bourgeoisie will be greatly helped on its way toward damnation by the extensions of spectacular corruption."

"Truth is concrete; it is always expressed in specific contexts."

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

"The colonized has no way out but to make oneself the instrument of the liberation of others."

"Every colonized person takes a very simple attitude toward the colonial and toward the colonization."

"The native's reason is always a criminal's reason."

"We should flatly refuse the new national bourgeoisie the right to organize the nation."

"Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content."