Frantz Fanon

The naked truth of decolonization evokes for us the searing bullets and bloodstained knives which emanate from it. For if the last shall be first, this will only come to pass after a murderous and decisive confrontation between the two protagonists.

Imperialism leaves behind it, here and there, little clusters of Europeans who, living in an unreal way, begin to feel the need of a fictive superstructure which conceals their alienation.

The colonial world is a Manichaean world.

The colonialist is not content with taking the native in his grip and emptying his brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, he turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.

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

The great danger that threatens the young nation is the intellectual laziness of its ruling class.

The consciousness of the self is not the closing of a door to communication. On the contrary, it is the only guarantee of communication.

The colonized subject is an overdetermined individual who is deprived of the possibility of being a man.

The black man is not a man. He is a black man.

The colonized man is a man of permanent revolt.

The native is a being of no consequence.

The white man is generally perceived as being the absolute master of the universe.

The black man is a toy in the hands of the white man.

The black man is a man of despair.

The black man is a man of inferiority.

The black man is a man of complexes.

The black man is a man of neuroses.

The black man is a man of psychosis.