I Want The World To Recognize With

I Am Black: I Am The Incarnation Of A Complete Fusion With The World, An Intuitive Understanding Of The Earth, An Abandonment Of My Ego In The Heart Of The Cosmos, And No White Man, No Matter How Intelligent He May Be, Can Ever Understand Louis Armstrong And The Music Of The Congo.

For A Colonized People The Most Essential Value, Because The Most Concrete, Is First And Foremost The Land: The Land Which Will Bring Them Bread And, Above All, Dignity.

Culture Has Never The Translucidity Of Custom; It Abhors All Simplification. In Its Essence It Is Opposed To Custom, For Custom Is Always The Deterioration Of Culture.

My Intimate Knowledge Of Many Central African Tribes Has Everywhere Convinced Me Of The Necessity That The Negro Does Not Respect Treaties But Only Brute Force.”• General Adrian Dietrich Lothar Von Trotha On German South West Africa “at The Level Of Individuals, Violence Is A Cleansing Force. It Frees The Native From His Inferiority Complex And From His Despair And Inaction, It Makes Him Fearless And Restores His Self-respect.

In The World Through Which I Travel, I Am Endlessly Creating Myself.