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

In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.

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.

When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

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.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect