Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity. I was made to give and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple.

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

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

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.