I Came Into This World Anxious To

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

Taking The Continent As A Whole, This Religious Tension May Be Responsible For The Revival Of The Commonest Racial Feeling. Africa Is Divided Into Black And White, And The Names That Are Substituted- Africa South Of The Sahara, Africa North Of The Sahara- Do Not Manage To Hide This Latent Racism. Here, It Is Affirmed That White Africa Has A Thousand-year-old Tradition Of Culture; That She Is Mediterranean, That She Is A Continuation Of Europe And That She Shares In Graeco-latin Civilization. Black Africa Is Looked On As A Region That Is Inert, Brutal, Uncivilized - In A Word, Savage.

I Want The World To Recognize With Me The Open Door Of Every Consciousness

Imperialism Leaves Behind Germs Of Rot Which We Must Clinically Detect And Remove From Our Land But From Our Minds As Well.

For Violence, Like Achilles' Lance, Can Heal The Wounds It Has Inflicted.