The Native Must Realize That Colonialism Never

I Am Black; I Am In Total Fusion With The World, In Sympathetic Affinity With The Earth, Losing My Id In The Heart Of The Cosmos -- And The White Man, However Intelligent He May Be, Is Incapable Of Understanding Louis Armstrong Or Songs From The Congo. I Am Black, Not Because Of A Curse, But Because My Skin Has Been Able To Capture All The Cosmic Effluvia. I Am Truly A Drop Of Sun Under The Earth.

I Feel My Soul As Vast As The World, Truly A Soul As Deep As The Deepest Of Rivers; My Chest Has The Power To Expand To Infinity. I Was Made To Give And They Prescribe For Me The Humility Of The Cripple.

...there Are Too Many Idiots In This World. And Having Said It, I Have The Burden Of Proving It.

To Speak...means Above All To Assume A Culture, To Support The Weight Of A Civilization.

One Avoids Creolisms. Some Families Completely Forbid Creole And Mothers Ridicule Their Children For Speaking It.