He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity. I was made to give and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.

In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.