"The colonized man finds his freedom in and through violence."

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

"The black man has no ontological resistance in the eyes of the white man."

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

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