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.

I Ascribe A Basic Importance To The Phenomenon Of Language. To Speak Means To Be In A Position To Use A Certain Syntax, To Grasp The Morphology Of This Or That Language, But It Means Above All To Assume A Culture, To Support The Weight Of A Civilization.

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

The Basic Confrontation Which Seemed To Be Colonialism Versus Anti-colonialism, Indeed Capitalism Versus Socialism, Is Already Losing Its Importance. What Matters Today, The Issue Which Blocks The Horizon, Is The Need For A Redistribution Of Wealth. Humanity Will Have To Address This Question, No Matter How Devastating The Consequences May Be.

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