When I Search For Man

For A Colonized People The Most Essential Value, Because The Most Concrete, Is First And Foremost The Land: The Land Which Will Bring Them Bread And, Above All, Dignity.

For Europe, For Ourselves And For Humanity, Comrades, We Must Turn Over A New Leaf, We Must Work Out New Concepts, And Try To Set Afoot A New Man.

[educated Blacks] Society Refuses To Consider Them Genuine Negroes. The Negro Is A Savage, Whereas The Student Is Civilized. "you're Us," And If Anyone Thinks You Are A Negro He Is Mistaken, Because You Merely Look Like One.

When A Bachelor Of Philosophy From The Antilles Refuses To Apply For Certification As A Teacher On The Grounds Of His Color I Say That Philosophy Has Never Saved Anyone. When Someone Else Strives And Strains To Prove To Me That Black Men Are As Intelligent As White Men I Say That Intelligence Has Never Saved Anyone: And That Is True, For, If Philosophy And Intelligence Are Invoked To Proclaim The Equality Of Men, They Have Also Been Employed To Justify The Extermination Of Men.

Taking The Continent As A Whole, This Religious Tension May Be Responsible For The Revival Of The Commonest Racial Feeling. Africa Is Divided Into Black And White, And The Names That Are Substituted- Africa South Of The Sahara, Africa North Of The Sahara- Do Not Manage To Hide This Latent Racism. Here, It Is Affirmed That White Africa Has A Thousand-year-old Tradition Of Culture; That She Is Mediterranean, That She Is A Continuation Of Europe And That She Shares In Graeco-latin Civilization. Black Africa Is Looked On As A Region That Is Inert, Brutal, Uncivilized - In A Word, Savage.