I, The Man Of Color, Want Only

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.

Introducing Someone As A "negro Poet With A University Degree" Or Again, Quite Simply, The Expression, "a Great Black Poet." These Ready-made Phrases, Which Seem In A Common-sense Way To Fill A Need-or Have A Hidden Subtlety, A Permanent Rub.

I Feel My Soul As Vast As The World, Truly A Soul As Deep As The Deepest Of Rivers; My Chest Has The Power To Expand To Infinity. I Was Made To Give And They Prescribe For Me The Humility Of The Cripple.

A Government Or A Party Gets The People It Deserves And Sooner Or Later A People Gets The Government It Deserves.

The Gaze That The Colonized Subject Casts At The Colonist's Sector Is A Look Of Lust, A Look Of Envy. Dreams Of Possession. Every Type Of Possession; Of Sitting At The Colonist's Table And Sleeping In His Bed, Preferably With His Wife. The Colonized Man Is An Envious Man.