"There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it."

"The colonized subject is a being who has been alienated from his own culture, from his own history, from his own identity."

"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 colonizer makes history. His life is an epic, an odyssey. He is the beginning of the world."

"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."