"Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence."

"The colonized intellectual will try to make European culture his own."

"The colonized is a man who has been stripped of his dignity, of his pride, of his self-respect."

"The colonist, who is out to destroy the colonized people, will naturally find himself facing a hostile people, and this hostility will be shown by every means available. It will be the negation of the…"

"The great danger that threatens the young nation is the intellectual laziness of its ruling class."