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Violence is man re-creating himself.
Mastery of language affords remarkable power.
He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.
Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.
Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone.
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
O my body, make of me always a man who questions!
There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.
What matters is not to know the world but to change it.
Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.
The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.
For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.
Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.
For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.
I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness
No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.
Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.
The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.
It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.
Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.
...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.
A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.
The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.
We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.
Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.
A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.
When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.
If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.
For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.
When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.
The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.
However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.
Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race" Sandra Forsythe
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
Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.
In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.
For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.
When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.