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

"Europe is literally the creation of the Third World."

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

"The colonised subject is a man of hunger, a man of thirst, a man of desire. He is a man of rage."

"The naked truth of decolonization evokes for us the searing bullets and bloodstained knives which emanate from it. For if the last shall be first, this will only come to pass after a murderous and dec…"