Occupation: Writer Birth: September 12, 1924 Death: January 20, 1973
The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, t….
We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it..
Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy….
We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be exploited….
We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality..
Tell no lies' claim no easy victories.
No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice..
Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history..
A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance o….
We must practice revolutionary democracy in every aspect of our Party life. Every responsible member must have the courage of his responsibilities, e….
One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the c….
Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live ….
Educate ourselves; educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to natu….
National liberation is necessarily an act of culture.
We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn..