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Psychiatrist

French psychiatrist and influential figure in the decolonization movement. Born in Martinique, Fanon was educated in France and worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria. His works, 'The Wretched of the Earth' and 'The Philosophy of the Revolution', have had a profound impact on postcolonial and liberation theories.

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Famous Frantz Fanon Quotes

“Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality-finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.”

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”

World Culture Speak Language Psychology

Author:Frantz Fanon

“Mastery of language affords remarkable power.”

Language Remarkable Mastery

Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.”

Men World Language Implied

Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.”

Evil Language Behinds Bigger Good And Evil Mask Plunder

Author:Frantz Fanon

“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.”

Mean Use Certain Culture Speak Language Support Position Civilization Weight Importance Assuming Phenomenon Syntax Morphology

Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

About the Author

Born: July 20, 1925
Died: December 6, 1961
Known for: Psychiatrist
Quotes: 93

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