To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

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

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

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

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

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.