A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.
National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.
For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.
He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.
Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.