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Now, try to put on a black skin for five minutes. I know you find this hard to do, but there is no other way to get the living feel of our situation.
From now on, our duty as Negro-Africans is plain. We remain free to travel with the current, or to row against it.
Today, our Negritude no longer expresses itself as opposition to European values, but as a complement to them.
Our criticism of the thesis advanced by the Society for European Culture is that it is monstrously anti-humanist. For if European civilization were to be imposed, unmodified, on all Peoples and Continents, it could only be by force
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