"The colonized is a man who has been forced to live in a state of perpetual childhood, a state of perpetual dependence."

"I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of un…"

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

"The colonial world is a Manichaean world."

"The colonizer is a man who has been corrupted by power, by privilege, by the desire to dominate."