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“I can conceive of no Negro native to this country who has not, by the age of puberty, been irreparably scarred by the conditions of his life. All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.”
― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

“The present predicaments of Africa are often not a matter of personal choice: they arise from a historical situation. Their solutions are not so much a matter of personal decision as that of a fundamental social transformation of the structures of our societies starting with a real break with imperialism and its internal ruling allies. Imperialism and its comprador alliances in Africa can never develop the continent.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

“The bullet was the means of the physical subjugation. Language was the means of the spiritual subjugation.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

“Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's experience in history.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature