"When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe."

"The colonial world is a Manichaean world."

"I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth."

"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 black man is a man who has been forced to internalize the negative image that the white man has of him."