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

Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race" Sandra Forsythe

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

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

I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.