It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.

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.

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

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

Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.