Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone.

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.

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.

My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.”• General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha on German South West Africa “At the level of individuals, 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.

For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

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