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Colonialism is not hegemonic, all-encompassing and all-powerful, but rather, uneven, imperfect, and even indifferent knowledge-acquiring machines.

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Colonialism is complete when the native admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

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Colonialism is written into history by the colonizer not as the history of the country which he plunders but as the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

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Colonialism is a system beneficial for African nations, and what's more, it was beneficial on account of race and race differences between the colonizers and the colonized.

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Colonialism is an institution which is not a thinking machine nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and will only yield when confronted with greater violence. Only 'absolute violence' which didn't distinguish civilians could get the colonizers' attention.

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Colonialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country, but only the natural resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, leaving the rest of the colony to follow its path of under-development and poverty.

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