No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice.

- Amilcar Cabral

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

- Amilcar Cabral

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…

- Amilcar Cabral

A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance o…

- Amilcar Cabral

Tell no lies' claim no easy victories

- Amilcar Cabral

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.

- Amilcar Cabral

We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.

- Amilcar Cabral

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…

- Amilcar Cabral

National liberation is necessarily an act of culture

- Amilcar Cabral