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

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

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

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.

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

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

The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.