"African Renaissance harbors “the central idea of rebirth and the spring of a new vision of being"

"Europe has turned the continent’s linguistic communities into “graveyards over which now lie European linguistic plan…"

"Literature written by Africans in European languages… can only be termed Afro-European literature; that is, the liter…"

"Wherever they went, in their voyages of land, sea, and mind, Europeans planted their own memories on whatever they co…"

"Give me a map; then let me see how much Is left for me to conquer all the world, . . ."

"That from thenceforth each one should take unto him- self a several surname, either of his trade or faculty of some q…"

"Linguicide is the linguistic equivalent of genocide. Genocide involves con- scious acts of physical massacre; linguic…"

"They wept such ceaseless tears into my stream That it has thus far overflowed his shore."

". A black character in my novel, Wizard of the Crow, suffers from white- ache, which can be cured only by his becomin…"

"In war, all strategies and tactics revolve around the shield and the spear."