"The habit of considering racism as a mental quirk, as a psychological flaw, must be abandoned."

"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 violence of the colonized, far from being a simple reflex, is inscribed in the very nature of colonial oppression."

"The colonizer is a man who has been forced to deny his own history, his own culture, his own identity."

"The colonized man finds his freedom in and through violence."