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.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

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.

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.