"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 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."

"To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture."

"The colonizer is a man who has been alienated from his own humanity, from his own emotions, from his own compassion."

"For the colonized subject, objectivity is always a weapon directed against him."