Frantz Fanon

"Every colonized people finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation."

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

"The colonialist bourgeoisie is quite prepared to leave their lesser brethren to the task of governing the ex-colony."

"The native is overspun with complexes that originate in the colonial situation."

"Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove."

"The look, the physical contact are here barred by the colonial relationship."

"Spontaneity must be directed and channeled; passion alone is not enough."

"In the colonial sphere, the psychiatrist is a servant of the colonial regime."

"The problem of the native doctor and the psychology of the colonized is immense."

"The colonized man, in the first phase of his existence as a colonized man is a claustrophobe."

"For the colonized, life can only spring up again out of the destruction of the colonial state."

"The battle for democracy becomes a battle for the liberation of the colonized."

"Hunger, pain, and despair must animate the native masses to rise against their oppressors."

"The colonized intellectual often mimics his colonizer without achieving authenticity."

"A new humanism cannot be limited to Europe; it must encompass the entire world."

"The national movement is not the only form which can take the liberation of a colonized people."

"The rebel thinks he is responsible for everything; that is the fundamental source of his anguish."

"In underdeveloped countries an authentic national bourgeoisie is practically non-existent."

"The colonial world is divided into two: the zone of being and the zone of non-being."

"To educate the masses politically is to make the masses understand that everything depends on them."

"Social tensions will develop if the mass of the people are not continuously and significantly involved in political life."

"The struggle against colonialism is the noblest of all struggles."

"National consciousness must constantly be deepened and new layers must be awakened."

"Every colonized person carries the marks of violence in his conduct and his confidence."

"The nationalism of underdeveloped countries must be distinguished from the nationalism of European countries."

"Psychologically, the Black man is burdened by an inferiority complex born of the cultural and social circumstances."

"The colonized man raises himself by ridding himself of the colonizer."

"The danger of such nationalism lies in the fact that it can be captured by the bourgeoisie."

"Art and literature for the colonized intellectual become tools of national consciousness."

"The colonized person is a Manichean allegory; he is divided into two parts."