When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

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

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

Violence is man re-creating himself.

...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.