Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

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

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

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

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

All of life is a foreign country.

Strangers are an endangered species.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.