"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 black man is not a man."

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

"The naked truth of decolonization is always a violent phenomenon."

"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."