However Painful It May Be For Me

I, The Man Of Color, Want Only This: That The Tool Never Possess The Man. That The Enslavement Of Man By Man Cease Forever. That Is, Of One By Another. That It Be Possible For Me To Discover And To Love Man, Wherever He May Be.

It Is The White Man Who Creates The Negro. But It Is The Negro Who Creates Negritude.

There Is A Point At Which Methods Devour Themselves.

National Liberation, National Renaissance, The Restoration Of Nationhood To The People, Commonwealth: Whatever May Be The Headings Used Or The New Formulas Introduced, Decolonization Is Always A Violent Phenomenon.

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.