A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.
Frantz FanonIf the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.
Frantz FanonColinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.
Frantz Fanon