Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

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.

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

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

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