If The Building Of A Bridge Does

In The World Through Which I Travel, I Am Endlessly Creating Myself.

To Educate The Masses Politically Does Not Mean, Cannot Mean, Making A Political Speech. What It Means Is To Try, Relentlessly And Passionately, To Teach The Masses That Everything Depends On Them; That If We Stagnate It Is Their Responsibility, And That If We Go Forward It Is Due To Them Too, That There Is No Such Thing As A Demiurge, That There Is No Famous Man Who Will Take The Responsibility For Everything, But That The Demiurge Is The People Themselves And The Magic Hands Are Finally Only The Hands Of The People.

The Native Must Realize That Colonialism Never Gives Anything Away For Nothing.

Taking The Continent As A Whole, This Religious Tension May Be Responsible For The Revival Of The Commonest Racial Feeling. Africa Is Divided Into Black And White, And The Names That Are Substituted- Africa South Of The Sahara, Africa North Of The Sahara- Do Not Manage To Hide This Latent Racism. Here, It Is Affirmed That White Africa Has A Thousand-year-old Tradition Of Culture; That She Is Mediterranean, That She Is A Continuation Of Europe And That She Shares In Graeco-latin Civilization. Black Africa Is Looked On As A Region That Is Inert, Brutal, Uncivilized - In A Word, Savage.

I Came Into The World Imbued With The Will To Find A Meaning In Things, My Spirit Filled With The Desire To Attain To The Source Of The World, And Then I Found That I Was An Object In The Midst Of Other Objects.