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Frantz Fanon
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We are nothing on earth if we are not in the first place the slaves of a cause, the cause of the peoples, the cause of justice and liberty.
— Letter to Roger Tayeb, December 1961, as cited in Peter Geismar, Fanon (1971), p. 185.
Frantz Fanon
French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (1925–1961)
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A psychiatrist from Martinique who joined Algeria's war for independence and mapped the psychological wounds colonialism leaves in both the colonized and the colonizer. His writings became a manual for liberation movements across three continents.
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Born 20 July 1925 in Martinique, then a French colony, Fanon trained as a psychiatrist and developed models for community-based mental health care, working at Saint-Alban where he helped found institutional psychotherapy. His clinical work led him to theorize the psychopathology of colonization — how empire damages minds on both sides of the power line. During the Algerian War of independence he joined the National Liberation Front, supporting the fight against France while practicing medicine. He dictated his writings to his wife Josie, who transcribed, edited, and sometimes contributed to th…
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Frantz Fanon
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Why write this book? No one has asked me for it. Especially those to whom it is directed. Well? Well, I reply quite calmly that there are too many idiots in this world.
— Introduction, page 7
Frantz Fanon
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At risk of arousing the resentment of my colored brothers, I will say that the black is not a man.
— Introduction, page 8
Frantz Fanon
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The black is a black man;that is, as the result of a series of aberrations of affect, he is rooted at the core of a universe from which he must be extricated.
— Introduction, page 8
Frantz Fanon
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Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.
— Introduction, page 9
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