Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who is being, reluctantly and bloodily, separated from the land, and the African who is still attempting to digest or to vomit up the Bible.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.