...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

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.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being man. I cannot disassociate myself from the future that is proposed for my brother.

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

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.

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.