The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one.

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

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.

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.