William Sandles

“So long as the population density was low, then human beings viewed as units of labor were far more important than other factors of production such as land. From one end of the continent to the other, it is easy to find examples that African people were conscious that population was in their circumstances the most important factor of production. Among the Bemba, for instance, numbers of subjects were held to be more important than land. Among the Shambala of Tanzania, the same feeling was expressed in the saying, "A king is people.”
― Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

“Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.”
― Walter Benjamin

“Of men who had cowered trembling before the frown of any white ruffian, he had made in ten years an army which could hold its own with the finest soldiers Europe has yet seen.”
― C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

“The French, powerless before this fortitude, saw in it not the strength of the revolution but some peculiarity special to Blacks. The muscles of a Negro , they said, contracted with so much force as to make him insensible to pain. They enslaved the Negro, they said, because he was not a man, and when he behaved like a man, they called him a monster.”
― C.L.R. James