Certain Things Need To Be Said If

To Speak...means Above All To Assume A Culture, To Support The Weight Of A Civilization.

National Liberation, National Renaissance, The Restoration Of Nationhood To The People, Commonwealth: Whatever May Be The Headings Used Or The New Formulas Introduced, Decolonization Is Always A Violent Phenomenon.

Certain Things Need To Be Said If One Is To Avoid Falsifying The Problem.

I Am Black: I Am The Incarnation Of A Complete Fusion With The World, An Intuitive Understanding Of The Earth, An Abandonment Of My Ego In The Heart Of The Cosmos, And No White Man, No Matter How Intelligent He May Be, Can Ever Understand Louis Armstrong And The Music Of The Congo.

A Man Who Has A Language Consequently Possesses The World Expressed And Implied By That Language.