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

"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 colonized is a being under the gaze of the other. It is this gaze that constitutes him as an object, as a thing."

"The black man is a victim of a system that has been designed to oppress him, to dehumanize him, to exploit him."

"When people like me, they like me “in spite of my color.” When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle."