"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 black man wants to be white. The white man slaves to reach a human level."

"Violence alone, perpetrated by the people, violence organized and educated by its leaders, makes it possible for the masses to understand social truths and gives the key to them."

"The colonized is a being under the gaze of the other. It is this gaze that constitutes him as an object, as a thing."

"The settler's town is a strongly-built town, all of stone and steel. It is a brightly-lit town; the streets are paved with asphalt, and the garbage-cans swallow all the leavings, all the wet and dirty…"