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

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

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

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

For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.

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

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.