"The consciousness of the self is not the closing of a door to communication. On the contrary, it is the only guarantee of communication."

"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."

"I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth."

"The black man is a man who has been forced to live in a state of constant alienation, a state of constant estrangement."

"The colonialist is not content with taking the native in his grip and emptying his brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, he turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distor…"