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

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

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

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

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

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

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

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