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

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

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.

In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.”• General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha on German South West Africa “At the level of individuals, 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.

...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.