Frantz Fanon — "The black man is not. Any more than the white man."

"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."

"I am a man, and I have a right to be treated as such."

"The colonized underdeveloped man is a political creature in the most global sense of the term."

"The colonized man will first manifest this aggressiveness which has been deposited in his bones against his own people."

"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."