Frantz Fanon

"We must allow our people to sleep and to dream; they will know what is coming."

"The colonial world is a world of statues; the colonizer is the statue, the colonized the shadow."

"Every colonized people possesses a store of experience which enriches the understanding of mankind."

"Liberation is not a word around which to gather; it is an indispensable condition for the existence of man."

"The question is not whether the colonized can understand the dialectical method, but whether they will use it."

"To speak a language is to take on a world and a culture; it is to assume a civilization."

"The colonized intellectual who wishes to write must decide: will I compromise my people?"

"A successful national liberation will lead inevitably to socialism if the revolution is to be truly complete."

"National consciousness, which is not nationalism, is the only thing that will give us an international dimension."

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

"The colonized man is an unhappy man, at all times and in all places."

"Spontaneity is a form of existence; the magical, emotional, and vital reflex of colonized people."

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

"We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe."

"The native intellectual who takes up arms to defend his nation is to be looked upon as a forechosen of national culture."

"Come, brothers, the white man's hour is running out, and we shall soon see the many columns of the United Nations organizing churches where we shall decide the issue."

"The look which the native turns on the settler's town is a look of lust, a look of envy."

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

"The world I am entering is not outlined in black and white, but in shifting grays and ambiguous hues."

"Culture is the memory of a people."

"To leave this wretchedness, the native has only one choice: out-of-the-way act of violence."

"The doctor does not have the right to be ignorant of the poor man's ignorance."

"Hunger with dignity is preferable to bread eaten in slavery."

"National bourgeoisie who are going to assume power in the post-colonial state practice sport in a strikingly hygenic manner."

"The raising of the national bourgeoisie to the rank of comprador bourgeoisie is not a fatality."

"Behind this National Bourgeoisie is a young, spirited, modernizing bourgeoisie which cares little for the old forms of administration."

"Every colonized people find themselves face to face with the language of the civilizing nation."

"The native replies to the colonist's first language by a behavior that is equally exclusively non-verbal."

"Psychologically, it is easy to understand the style of those leaders who lay the greatest stress on stopping the work of colonization."

"The intellectual belongs to the nation, and it is up to him to serve it."