Amilcar Cabral Quotes

No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice.

Tell no lies' claim no easy victories

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.

Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children. . .

We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.

We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.