And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength.

Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

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

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

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

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