"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 first fight of the colonized is to reclaim the right to exist."

"The settler's town is a strongly-built town, all of stone and steel. It is a brightly-lit town; the streets are paved with asphalt, and the garbage-cans swallow all the leavings, all the wet and dirty…"

"The greatest danger that threatens humanity is the existence of a zone of nonbeing, a zone of nothingness."

"Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence."