Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

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.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.