To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

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

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

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.