"The colonized discovers that his life, his breathing, the beating of his heart are the same as those of the colonist. [...] Practically, I don't give a damn."

"The well-known principle that all men are equal will be illustrated in the colonies from the moment that the colonized subject asserts he is the equal of the colonist."

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

"The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves."

"The black man has no ontological resistance in the eyes of the white man."