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Frantz Fanon quotes about culture

French Psychologist July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961

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The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the hope of a future national culture. In the sphere of psycho-affective equilibrium it is responsible for an important change in the native. Perhaps we haven't sufficiently demonstrated that colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the... 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. Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon quote: "The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in..."
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards. Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon quote: "To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the..."
To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon quote: "To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture."
To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. Frantz Fanon
When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for a variety of reasons, we can no longer breathe Frantz Fanon

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