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Frantz Fanon (19251961) was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements throughout the world for the past forty-two years. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Fanon, Frantz.

"When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men."

Fanon, Frantz on Equality
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"Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent."

Fanon, Frantz on Fanatics and Fanaticism
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"I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization."

Fanon, Frantz on Language
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"There is a point at which methods devour themselves."

Fanon, Frantz on Methods
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"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."

Fanon, Frantz on Middle Class
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