The Negro is a toy in the white man's hands; so, in order to shatter the hellish cycle, he explodes. - Frantz Fanon

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The Negro is a toy in the white man's hands; so, in order to shatter the hellish cycle, he explodes.

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About Frantz Fanon

Frantz Omar Fanon (20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionist and author from Martinique. He was influential in the field of post-colonial studies and was perhaps the pre-eminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades.

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Alternative Names: Frantz Omar Fanon Ibrahim Fanon Ibrahim Omar Fanon François Fanon
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What is there to say? Purely and simply this: When a bachelor of philosophy from Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the ground of his color. I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. Wren one else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men, I say that intelligence has never saved anyone; and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men .

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