To Educate The Masses Politically Is To

[educated Blacks] Society Refuses To Consider Them Genuine Negroes. The Negro Is A Savage, Whereas The Student Is Civilized. "you're Us," And If Anyone Thinks You Are A Negro He Is Mistaken, Because You Merely Look Like One.

What I Call Middle-class Society Is Any Society That Becomes Rigidified In Predetermined Forms, Forbidding All Evolution, All Gains, All Progress, All Discovery. I Call Middle-class A Closed Society In Which Life Has No Taste, In Which The Air Is Tainted, In Which Ideas And Men Are Corrupt. And I Think That A Man Who Takes A Stand Against This Death Is In A Sense A Revolutionary.

Colinialism Hardly Ever Exploits The Whole Of A Country. It Contents Itself With Bringing To Light The Natrual Resources, Which It Extracts, And Exports To Meet The Needs Of The Mother Country's Industries, Thereby Allowing Certain Sectors Of The Colony To Become Relatively Rich. But The Rest Of The Colony Follows Its Path Of Under-development And Poverty, Or At All Events Sinks Into It More Deeply.

Wealth Is Not The Fruit Of Labor But The Result Of Organized Protected Robbery.

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