Frantz Fanon: Quotes about the world

Frantz Fanon was Martiniquais writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary. Explore interesting quotes on world.
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“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”

Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks (1952), pp. 38

“There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.”

Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks (1952)

“A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.”

Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.”

Frantz Fanon book The Wretched of the Earth

Source: The Wretched of the Earth (1961), p. 37.

“I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.”

Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks

"The Lived Experience of the Black Man"/"The Fact of Blackness"
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)

“The destruction of the colonial world is no more and no less that the abolition of one zone, its burial in the depths of the earth or its expulsion from the country.”

Frantz Fanon book The Wretched of the Earth

Source: The Wretched of the Earth (1961), p. 41

“I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo. If I am black, it is not the result of a curse, but it is because, having offered my skin, I have been anle to absorb all the cosmic efflucia.”

Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks

I am truly a ray of sunlight under the earth...
Source: Black Skin, White Masks (1952), Ch. 2

“Man is motion toward the world and toward his like. A movement of aggression, which leads to enslavement or to conquest; a movement of love, a gift of self, the ultimate stage of what by common accord is called ethical orientation. Every consciousness seems to have the capacity to demonstrate these two components, simultaneously or alternatively. The person I love will strengthen me by endorsing my assumption of my manhood, while the need to earn the admiration or the love of others will erect a value-making superstructure on my whole vision of the world.”

Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks (1952), Chapter 2, "The Woman of Color and the White Man", p. 41