I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects.

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

Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.

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.

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

Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race" Sandra Forsythe

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.