When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

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

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

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.

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.

Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being man. I cannot disassociate myself from the future that is proposed for my brother.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.