To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I will be told, there is no wish, no intention to anger him. I grant this; but it is just this absence of wish, this lack of interest, this indifference, this automatic manner of classifying him, imprisoning him, primitivizing him, decivilizing him, that makes him angry. If a man who speaks pidgin to a man of color or an Arab does not see anything wrong or evil in such behavior, it is because he has never stopped to think.

Forced to remain on the island French soldiers became "authentic racists. In particular he began socio-therapy which connected with his patients' cultural backgrounds. When he was not confined to his bed he delivered lectures to ALN (Armée de Libération Nationale) officers at Ghardimao on the Algero-Tunisian border.

His life and works have incited and inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades. Fanon is known as a radical existential humanist thinker on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization.