"I am a man, and I have a right to be treated as such."

"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 settler's town is a strongly-built town, all of stone and steel. It is a brightly-lit town; the streets are paved with asphalt, and the garbage-cans swallow all the leavings, all the wet and dirty…"

"The white man is intelligent. The white man is strong. The white man is good. The white man is beautiful. The white man is everything."

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