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

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

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