"Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity."

"The colonizer is a man who has been forced to deny his own history, his own culture, his own identity."

"The black man is a man who has been denied his humanity, his individuality, his freedom."

"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 colonized is a man who has been forced to live in a state of constant contradiction, a state of constant conflict."