The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

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.

Are we meant to be pilgrims of the depths?

Getting to the end of a song is not the goal of singing.

It takes a strong individual to live passionately, and with having quality in their conviction, that sets the results one achieves.

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

Compassion doesn't weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.