"European civilization and its values are not worth the trouble."

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

"The black man who has lived in France for a length of time returns radically changed."

"For a colonized people, the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity."

"The colonized is a man who is constantly in a state of tension, a state of anxiety, a state of fear."