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

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

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.

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

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

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