“Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?”

“The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.”

“Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?”

“Colonialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natural 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.”

“Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, an state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are. To what you can understand, live, be, just by being with that presents itself to you in the form of the feelings you have...”

“There's not much I dislike more than being addressed as "Hey you" and being poked with a finger.”