It Is The White Man Who Creates

I, The Man Of Color, Want Only This: That The Tool Never Possess The Man. That The Enslavement Of Man By Man Cease Forever. That Is, Of One By Another. That It Be Possible For Me To Discover And To Love Man, Wherever He May Be.

It Is The White Man Who Creates The Negro. But It Is The Negro Who Creates Negritude.

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.

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.

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.