For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

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

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

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

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.