"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."

"Violence is man re-creating himself."

"For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white."

"I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. 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."

"Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent."