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

"The black man is a man who has been forced to choose between his own culture and the culture of the white man."

"The black man is not a man. The black man is a man of the forest, a man of the jungle, a man of the bush, a man of the cotton plantation."

"I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of un…"

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

"The naked truth of decolonization evokes for us the searing bullets and bloodstained knives which emanate from it. For if the last shall be first, this will only come to pass after a murderous and dec…"