The Business Of Obscuring Language

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.

In The Colonial Context The Settler Only Ends His Work Of Breaking In The Native When The Latter Admits Loudly And Intelligibly The Supremacy Of The White Man's Values.

The Settler Makes History And Is Conscious Of Making It. And Because He Constantly Refers To The History Of His Mother Country, He Clearly Indicates That He Himself Is The Extension Of That Mother Country. Thus The History Which He Writes Is Not The History Of The Country Which He Plunders But The History Of His Own Nation In Regard To All That She Skims Off, All That She Violates And Starves.

I Ascribe A Basic Importance To The Phenomenon Of Language. To Speak Means To Be In A Position To Use A Certain Syntax, To Grasp The Morphology Of This Or That Language, But It Means Above All To Assume A Culture, To Support The Weight Of A Civilization.

Capitalist Exploitation And Cartels And Monopolies Are The Enemies Of Underdeveloped Countries. On The Other Hand A Regime Which Is Completely Oriented Towards The People As A Whole And Based On The Principle That Man Is The Most Precious Of All Possessions, Will Allow Us To Go Forward More Quickly And More Harmoniously, And Thus Make Impossible That Caricature Of Society Where All Economic And Political Power Is Held In The Hands Of A Few Who Regard The Nation As A Whole With Scorn And Contempt.