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Fervour is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

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In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

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The shape of Africa resembles a revolver, and the Congo is the trigger.

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Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.

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I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

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No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

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The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

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

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

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

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They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

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There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

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A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

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The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

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Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

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The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

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All forms of exploitation are identical because all of them are applied against the same "object": man.

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We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

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Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

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

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If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

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

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From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.

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For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

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

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When I search for man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

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The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

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For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.

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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.

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I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.

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