I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.

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

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.