O My Body, Make Of Me Always

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

Every Colonized People-in Other Words, Every People In Whose Soul An Inferiority Complex Has Been Created By The Death And Burial Of Its Local Cultural Originality-finds Itself Face To Face With The Language Of The Civilizing Nation; That Is, With The Culture Of The Mother Country. The Colonized Is Elevated Above His Jungle Status In Proportion To His Adoption Of The Mother Country's Cultural Standards.

I Came Into The World Imbued With The Will To Find A Meaning In Things, My Spirit Filled With The Desire To Attain To The Source Of The World, And Then I Found That I Was An Object In The Midst Of Other Objects.

The Business Of Obscuring Language Is A Mask Behind Which Stands The Much Bigger Business Of Plunder.

For The Black Man There Is Only One Destiny. And It Is White.