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.
Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.
In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.
It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.
There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.