Frantz Fanon

The inferiority complex is the consequence of the depersonalization of the colonized.

The colonized intellectual will try to make European culture his own.

The first fight of the colonized is to reclaim the right to exist.

Europe is literally the creation of the Third World.

The colonized man will first manifest this aggressiveness which has been deposited in his bones against his own people.

The habit of considering racism as a mental quirk, as a psychological flaw, must be abandoned.

The settler is right when he speaks of knowing ‘them’ well. For it is the settler who has brought the native into existence and who perpetuates his existence.

The black man is not a man.

The colonized man finds his freedom in and through violence.

The black man who has lived in France for a length of time returns radically changed.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

The colonized man is an envious man.

The black man has no culture, no civilization, no ‘long historical past’.

The black man is not. Any more than the white man.

The black man is comparison.

The black man wants to be like the white man.

The colonist, who is out to destroy the colonized people, will naturally find himself facing a hostile people, and this hostility will be shown by every means available. It will be the negation of the other, the other who is the negation of himself.

I am a man and I have a voice. I will use it.

The colonised subject is a man of hunger, a man of thirst, a man of desire. He is a man of rage.

The oppressor makes the oppressed.