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

Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.

National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.