"The oppressor makes the oppressed."

"The colonized intellectual will try to make European culture his own."

"At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect."

"The black man is a man who has been denied his humanity, his individuality, his freedom."

"The colonialist is not content with taking the native in his grip and emptying his brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, he turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distor…"