Frantz Fanon — "The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves."

"Violence alone, perpetrated by the people, violence organized and educated by its leaders, makes it possible for the masses to understand social truths and gives the key to them."

"The colonized subject is a man whose needs are not met, whose desires are frustrated, whose emotions are suppressed."

"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."

"The black man has no ontological resistance in the eyes of the white man."

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