No Attempt Must Be Made To Encase

Get Used To Me, I Am Not Getting Used To Anyone.

One Avoids Creolisms. Some Families Completely Forbid Creole And Mothers Ridicule Their Children For Speaking It.

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.

The Business Of Obscuring Language Is A Mask Behind Which Stands The Much Bigger Business Of Plunder.

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.