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Frantz Fanon died on 6 December 1961. Here follows a Fanonian thread of Fanonian quotes and thoughts.
My Fanonian film analysis: I ask, how do we simultaneously depict the wretched & those who make wretched? Can we by hearing the unheard, imagine new worlds?
The Movie 'Detroit': Tales of a Wretched Night https://folukeafrica.com/detroit-the-movie-systemic-v-direct-racism/
The Movie 'Detroit': Tales of a Wretched Night https://folukeafrica.com/detroit-the-movie-systemic-v-direct-racism/
'I should constantly remind myself that the real leap consists in introducing invention into existence.
In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself. I am a part of Being to the degree that I go beyond it.' Black Skins, White Masks.
In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself. I am a part of Being to the degree that I go beyond it.' Black Skins, White Masks.
“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it in relative opacity”. ― The Wretched of the Earth
"A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.” — Black Skin, White Masks
“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.” ― The Wretched of the Earth
“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.” ― Black Skin, White Masks
“Having judged, condemned, abandoned his cultural forms, his language, his food habits, his sexual behavior, his way of sitting down, of resting, of laughing, of enjoying himself, the oppressed flings himself upon the imposed culture with the desperation of a drowning man.”
― Toward the African Revolution
