Quotes by Fanon, Frantz

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. >>

When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for c >>

There is a point at which methods devour themselves. >>

Quotations about Language

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the >>

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fi >>

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the se >>

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.

Fanon, Frantz