"The black man is a man who has been forced to live in a state of constant alienation, a state of constant estrangement."

"I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth."

"To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture."

"The black man is a man of despair."

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