Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

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.

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

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

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.