Frantz Fanon Quotes
The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Constance Farrington, Grove Press, 1963, p. 143.
Referring to the Arawak natives he found when he landed in the "new world—San Salvador:"
That is exactly what happened. The Spanish raped and interbred with the native women in the Americas and it was their offspring who ended up dominating South and Central American societies.
Frantz Omar Fanon, also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a French West Indian psychiatrist and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). His works have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism. As well as being an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, Pan-Africanist, and Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.