Amilcar Cabral Quotes

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.

We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality.

No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice.

One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

Tell no lies' claim no easy victories

We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

National liberation is necessarily an act of culture

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...