"The first fight of the colonized is to reclaim the right to exist."

"The colonialist is not content with taking the native in his grip and emptying his brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, he turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distor…"

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

"The greatest danger that threatens humanity is the existence of a zone of nonbeing, a zone of nothingness."

"The black man is a man of psychosis."