I Want The World To

For A Colonized People The Most Essential Value, Because The Most Concrete, Is First And Foremost The Land: The Land Which Will Bring Them Bread And, Above All, Dignity.

Each Generation Must Discover Its Mission, Fulfill It Or Betray It, In Relative Opacity.

When A Bachelor Of Philosophy From The Antilles Refuses To Apply For Certification As A Teacher On The Grounds Of His Color I Say That Philosophy Has Never Saved Anyone. When Someone Else Strives And Strains To Prove To Me That Black Men Are As Intelligent As White Men I Say That Intelligence Has Never Saved Anyone: And That Is True, For, If Philosophy And Intelligence Are Invoked To Proclaim The Equality Of Men, They Have Also Been Employed To Justify The Extermination Of Men.

Everything Can Be Explained To The People, On The Single Condition That You Want Them To Understand.

O My Body, Make Of Me Always A Man Who Questions!