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

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.

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect