"The oppressed will always believe the oppressor to be stronger than he."

"The black man is a man of complexes."

"The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards."

"I am a man and I have a voice. I will use it."

"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."