Wealth Is Not The Fruit

They Realize At Last That Change Does Not Mean Reform, That Change Does Not Mean Improvement.

I Am Black; I Am In Total Fusion With The World, In Sympathetic Affinity With The Earth, Losing My Id In The Heart Of The Cosmos -- And The White Man, However Intelligent He May Be, Is Incapable Of Understanding Louis Armstrong Or Songs From The Congo. I Am Black, Not Because Of A Curse, But Because My Skin Has Been Able To Capture All The Cosmic Effluvia. I Am Truly A Drop Of Sun Under The Earth.

Certain Things Need To Be Said If One Is To Avoid Falsifying The Problem.

Colinialism Hardly Ever Exploits The Whole Of A Country. It Contents Itself With Bringing To Light The Natrual 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.

The Life Of The Nation Is Shot Through With A Certain Falseness And Hypocrisy, Which Are All The More Tragic Because They Are So Often Subconscious Rather Than Deliberate ... The Soul Of The People Is Putrescent, And Until That Becomes Regenerate And Clean, No Good Work Can Be Done.