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

"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 greatest danger that threatens humanity is the existence of a zone of nonbeing, a zone of nothingness."

"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 violence of the colonized, far from being a simple reflex, is inscribed in the very nature of colonial oppression."