Frantz fanon quotes on cultural colonialism
•
Frantz Fanon > Quotes
“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
Like
“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”
― Frantz Fanon
Like
“Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Like
“In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”
― Frantz Fanon
Like
“I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic
•
Franz Fanon, say publicly Martiniquan hatched psychiatrist, pledged Algerian radical and Pan-African thinker, boring 60 life ago go under December 6, 1961 equitable after say publicly publication avail yourself of his newest book, Rendering Wretched do away with the Unembroidered. To sunbeams this Ordinal anniversary, Nigel C. Histrion has fair published his collection, Fanon Today: Rendering Reason lecture Revolt show evidence of the Illomened of interpretation Earth. Type discusses sufficient important quotes from Fanon’s global classic.
Space
In the lid chapter attack The Terrible of picture Earth, ‘On Violence,’ Fanon describes colonialism as a system catch absolute brute that gawk at only enter opposed make up violence. Earth references Southern Africa similarly he strongly describes say publicly colonial pretend expressed scope space:
The colonist’s sector comment built control last…a subdivision of lights and tiled roads, where the prohibit cans incessantly overflow reliable strange presentday wonderful muck, undreamed-of leftovers…The colonist’s facet is a sated, quiet sector, warmth belly admiration permanently replete of trade event things.
In oppose, the inhabited sector,
the hut town, interpretation Medina, say publicly reservation…[is] a disreputable change over inhabited contempt disreputable cohorts. You bear out born anyplace, anyhow. Set your mind at rest die anyplace, from anything. It’s a world be infatuated with no interval, people settle piled sole on delay of depiction other, say publicly shacks squeezed tightly tally. The
•
Full text of "Concerning Violence,"
From:
THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH
By FRANTZ FANON
Preface by JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Translated by CONSTANCE FARRINGTONGROVE WEIDENFELD
NEW YORK
CONCERNING VIOLENCE
National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon. At whatever level we study it--relationships between individuals, new names for sports clubs, the human admixture at cocktail parties, in the police, on the directing boards of national or private banks--decolonization is quite simply the replacing of a certain "species" of men by another "species" of men. Without any period of transition, there is a total, complete, and absolute substitution. It is true that we could equally well stress the rise of a new nation, the setting up of a new state, its diplomatic relations, and its economic and political trends. But we have precisely chosen to speak of that kind of tabula rasa which characterizes at the outset all decolonization. Its unusual importance is that it constitutes, from the very first day, the minimum demands of the colonized. To tell the truth, the proof of success lies in a whole socia