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

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

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

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

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

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.