Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

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.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.