Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

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

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

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.