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

"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…"

"The colonized is a man who has been stripped of his dignity, of his pride, of his self-respect."

"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."