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.

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.