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

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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.

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.

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

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

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

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