"At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect."

"The colonized subject is a man whose needs are not met, whose desires are frustrated, whose emotions are suppressed."

"Imperialism leaves behind it, here and there, little clusters of Europeans who, living in an unreal way, begin to feel the need of a fictive superstructure which conceals their alienation."

"The colonized intellectual will try to make European culture his own."

"The colonist is an exhibitionist."