"The colonized world is a world divided in two."

"The colonizer is a man who has been corrupted by power, by privilege, by the desire to dominate."

"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."

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

"The colonized is a man who has been stripped of his dignity, of his pride, of his self-respect."