The Negro Enslaved By His Inferiority, The

The Colonized Is Elevated Above His Jungle Status In Proportion To His Adoption Of The Mother Country's Cultural Standards.

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

What I Call Middle-class Society Is Any Society That Becomes Rigidified In Predetermined Forms, Forbidding All Evolution, All Gains, All Progress, All Discovery. I Call Middle-class A Closed Society In Which Life Has No Taste, In Which The Air Is Tainted, In Which Ideas And Men Are Corrupt. And I Think That A Man Who Takes A Stand Against This Death Is In A Sense A Revolutionary.

To Speak A Language Is To Take On A World, A Culture.

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