Violence is man re-creating himself.

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

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

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

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.