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.

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

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

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

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

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