Frantz Fanon Quotes

The white man has succeeded in subduing the world by forcing everybody to think his way....The white man's propaganda has made him the master of the world, and all those who have come in contact with it and accepted it have become his slaves.

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

Part of the process of colonization (cultural conquest and domination) is the replacement of the celebrated drugs of the colonized with the celebrated drugs of the colonizer.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

When did one man ever civilize a people?

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

We are all British gentlemen engaged in the magnificent work of governing an inferior race.

Unlike more traditional conquerors, we are not content merely to subdue others: We insist that they be like us.

Take up the white man's burden — Send forth the best ye breed — Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.

So ubiquitous is Western influence that most of the time it is no longer seen as an alien element intruding into non-Western societies. It is an influence that has become integrated into the mind and body, the heart and soul of the non-Western human being. Western dominance, in other words, has become normal, it has become natural. By making it so natural and so normal to be 'Western', the centres of power in the West have achieved their ultimate triumph.

The control of China by Japan … is sharply and bitterly antagonistic to the white man’s civilization. This would be the worst calamity…. The future belongs to the white race; it does not belong to the yellow, not the black, not the olive-colored. It belongs to the blond man …

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.

At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.

In every sphere the Europeans must retain the right to rule the country and to keep it a white man’s country.

The idea of progress has a couple of contradictions … it leads to Eurocenterism….

White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.

Take up the White Man's burden— In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain, To seek another's profit And work another's gain. Take up the White Man's burden— The savage wars of peace— Fill All the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease.