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

Violence is man re-creating himself.

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

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.

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

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.