"The most urgent thing today is the liberation of the national territory."

"The black man wants to be like the white man."

"For the colonized subject, objectivity is always a weapon directed against him."

"The consciousness of the self is not the closing of a door to communication. On the contrary, it is the only guarantee of communication."

"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."