An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.