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.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality-finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.