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

"The settler is right when he speaks of knowing ‘them’ well. For it is the settler who has brought the native into existence and who perpetuates his existence."

"The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation."

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