The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.