# Quote — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

> When the colonized hear a speech on Western culture they draw their machetes or at least check to see they are close to hand. The supremacy of white values is stated with such violence, the victorious confrontation of these values with the lifestyle and beliefs of the colonized is so impregnated with aggressiveness, that as a counter measure the colonized rightly make a mockery of them whenever they are mentioned.

- Author: [Frantz Fanon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon.md)
- Book: [The Wretched of the Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/the-wretched-of-the-earth.md)
- Page: 8
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/the-wretched-of-the-earth/when-the-colonized

## More from this book

> The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

p. 144 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/the-wretched-of-the-earth/the-living-expression.md)

> The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anticolonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

p. 55 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/the-wretched-of-the-earth/the-basic-confrontation.md)

> To destroy the colonial world means nothing less than demolishing the colonist's sector, burying it deep within the earth or banishing it from the territory.

p. 6 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/the-wretched-of-the-earth/to-destroy-the.md)