"The black man is a toy in the hands of the white man."

"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."

"European civilization and its values are not worth the trouble."

"The settler's town is a strongly-built town, all of stone and steel. It is a brightly-lit town; the streets are paved with asphalt, and the garbage-cans swallow all the leavings, all the wet and dirty…"

"The colonized subject is an overdetermined individual who is deprived of the possibility of being a man."