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“The cultural combat against colonial domination—the first phase of the liberation movement—can be planned efficiently only on the basis of the culture of the rural and urban working masses, including the nationalist (revolutionary) ‘petite bourgeoisie’ who have been re-Africanized or who are ready for cultural reconversion. Whatever may be the complexity of this basic cultural panorama, the liberation movement must be capable of distinguishing within it the essential from the secondary, the positive from the negative, the progressive from the reactionary, in order to characterize the master line which defines progressively a national culture.”

—Amílcar Cabral, ‘National Liberation and Culture’

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/1970-amilcar-cabral-national-liberation-and-culture/

“We believe that the organized, conscious struggle of a colonized people to re-establish the sovereignty of the nation is the most fully cultural manifestation of all. It is not only the success of the struggle that subsequently gives validity and vigor to the culture, there is no hibernation of the culture during the struggle. The struggle itself, in its unfolding, in its internal process, develops the different directions of culture and sketches out new ones. The liberation struggle does not restore national culture to its ancient value and contours. This struggle, which is aimed at a fundamental redistribution of relations between people, cannot leave intact neither the forms nor the cultural contents of this people. After the struggle, there is not only the disappearance of colonialism, but also the disappearance of the colonized.”

—Frantz Fanon, ‘Mutual Foundations for National Culture and Liberation Struggles’ (personal translation, the one hereunder isn't very good)

https://archive.org/details/wretchedofearthf0000fano/page/170/mode/2up

“In order to break these psychological-class chains of 20th century enslavement, we must build a revolutionary culture. A culture that not only programs our minds out of oppression, but at the same time impels us against the enemy classes and culture. The BLA contribution in building such a culture will be to strive to create an armed tradition of resistance to our oppression, and to create a socio-psychological frame of mind on both oppressed and oppressor alike, that will lead to our eventual self-determination as a people.”

—Coordinating Committee of the Black Liberation Army, ‘Message to the Black Movement’

https://archive.org/details/message-to-the-black-movement-blapolitical-statement/mode/2up

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