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

"The naked truth of decolonization is always a violent phenomenon."

"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…"

"The colonized subject is a man who is constantly searching for his own identity, for his own self."