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

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

"To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization."

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

"The colonizer is a man who has been forced to deny his own history, his own culture, his own identity."