"To be is to choose oneself."

"If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing."

"I'm not a writer who can describe things. I just describe the process of thought."

"This is the contradiction of racism, colonialism, and all forms of tyranny: in order to treat a man like a dog, one must first recognize him as a man."

"Irrepressible violence is neither sound and fury, nor the resurrection of savage instincts, nor even the effect of resentment: it is man re-creating himself. The rebel's weapon is the proof of his hum…"