"The oppressed will always believe the oppressor to be stronger than he."

"To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization."

"The colonized is a being under the gaze of the other. It is this gaze that constitutes him as an object, as a thing."

"The settler is right when he speaks of knowing ‘them’ well. For it is the settler who has brought the native into existence and who perpetuates his existence."

"The colonized man will first manifest this aggressiveness which has been deposited in his bones against his own people."