It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

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

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

You have to conquer every mountain to realize the dream.

hate generalizes, love specifies

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

Death hath no dominion.

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.