"When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe."

"I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of un…"

"The consciousness of the self is not the closing of a door to communication. On the contrary, it is the only guarantee of communication."

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

"The colonized man will first manifest this aggressiveness which has been deposited in his bones against his own people."