# Quote — Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

> 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 .

- Author: [Frantz Fanon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon.md)
- Book: [Black Skin, White Masks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/black-skin-white-masks.md)
- Page: 28
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/black-skin-white-masks/what-is-there

## More from this book

> A white man addressing a Negro behaves exactly like an adult with a child and starts smirking, whispering, patronizing, cozening. It is not one white man I have watched, but hundreds; and I have not limited my investigation to any one class but, if I may claim an essentially objective position, I have made a point of observing such behavior in physician, policemen, employers.

p. 31 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/black-skin-white-masks/a-white-man.md)

> Man is motion toward the world and toward his like. A movement of aggression, which leads to enslavement or to conquest; a movement of love, a gift of self, the ultimate stage of what by common accord is called ethical orientation. Every consciousness seems to have the capacity to demonstrate these two components, simultaneously or alternatively. The person I love will strengthen me by endorsing my assumption of my manhood, while the need to earn the admiration or the love of others will erect a value-making superstructure on my whole vision of the world.

p. 41 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/black-skin-white-masks/man-is-motion.md)

> What is South Africa? A boiler into which thirteen million blacks are clubbed and penned in by two and a half million whites. If the poor whites hate the Negroes, it is not, as M. Mannoni would have us believe, because "racialism is the work of petty officials, small traders, and colonials who have toiled much without great success." No; it is because the structure of South Africa is a racist structure.

p. 87 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/black-skin-white-masks/what-is-south.md)