“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for a variety of reasons, we can no longer breathe”

“The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the hope of a future national culture. In the sphere of psycho-affective equilibrium it is responsible for an important change in the native. Perhaps we haven't sufficiently demonstrated that colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures, and destroys it. This work of devaluing pre-colonial history takes on a dialectical significance today.”

“We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.”

“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”

“Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.”

“Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race" Sandra Forsythe”

“To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”