The Business Of Obscuring Language Is A

In The Colonial Context The Settler Only Ends His Work Of Breaking In The Native When The Latter Admits Loudly And Intelligibly The Supremacy Of The White Man's Values.

I Came Into This World Anxious To Uncover The Meaning Of Things, My Soul Desirous To Be At Origin Of The World, And Here I Am An Object Among Other Objects.

For The Beloved Should Not Allow Me To Turn My Infantile Fantasies Into Reality: On The Contrary, He Should Help Me To Go Beyond Them.

Fervor Is The Weapon Of Choice For The Impotent.

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.