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Frantz Omar Fanon (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃ts fanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Martinican psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, Pan-Africanist, and Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.

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The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.

Dream, Look, Men, Sleep, Type, Wife

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Creating, Man, Men, Violence

And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength.

Class System, Colonization, Country, Decolonization, Pay, Violence

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

Already, Block, Colonialism, Issues, Today, What Matters

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

Science, Method, Point, Devour, Methods

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

Air, Corrupt, Gains, Men, Society, Thinking

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

Ends, Latter, Men, Native, Supremacy, White Man

For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

Beloved, Helping, Infantile, Reality

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

Opposes, Recognize, Reluctant

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

Adoption, Colonized, Country, Mother, Status

Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.

White, Civilization, Guilt, Negro, Progress

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

Burden, Idiot, Idiots, Proving, World

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Black, Destiny, Man, Men, White

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

Believe, Imperfection, Imperfections, Today, Trace

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe

Breathe, Culture, Longer, Particular, Reason, Reasons

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

Betray, Fulfill, Generation, Generations, Missions, Relative

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.

Colonies, Men, Oppressor, People, White, White Man

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

Germs, Land, Leaves, Mind, Minds, Remove

O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

Body, Make, Man, Men, Questions

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

Country, Extension, Mother, Plunders, Violates, Writing

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