"Violence is man re-creating himself."

"The black man is a man of neuroses."

"The black man is a man who has been forced to internalize the negative image that the white man has of him."

"The colonized subject is a being who has been alienated from his own culture, from his own history, from his own identity."

"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…"