The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

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.

When you come to a detour, take it.

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.

[Hillary Clinton] is been honest about how many people she wants to enter the country unquestioned, unvetted, both illegal immigrants and refugees.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.