Frantz Fanon: Quotes about people

Frantz Fanon was Martiniquais writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary. Explore interesting quotes on people.

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“When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.”

Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.”

Frantz Fanon book The Wretched of the Earth

The Wretched of the Earth (1961)

“The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.”

Frantz Fanon book The Wretched of the Earth

Source: The Wretched of the Earth

“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”

Frantz Fanon book The Wretched of the Earth

Source: The Wretched of the Earth

“Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.”

Frantz Fanon book The Wretched of the Earth

Source: The Wretched of the Earth

“The Church in the colonies is the white people’s Church, the foreigner’s Church. She does not call the native to God’s ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.”

Frantz Fanon book The Wretched of the Earth

Source: The Wretched of the Earth (1961), p. 42.

“We are nothing on earth if we are not in the first place the slaves of a cause, the cause of the peoples, the cause of justice and liberty.”

Source: Letter to Roger Tayeb, December 1961, as cited in Peter Geismar, Fanon (1971), p. 185.