"To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization."

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

"The native is a being without ethics, without morality, without values. He is an animal."

"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 colonized is a man who has been forced to live in a state of constant contradiction, a state of constant conflict."