"I think there is no one who does not know that theft and robbery are the cornerstones of America and Western civilization. Money is the heart that beats to keep the Western world on the move. If you people want to build a great civilization like ours, then kneel down before the god of money. Ignore the beautiful faces of your children, of your parents, of your brothers and sisters. Look only on the splendid face of money, and you'll never, never go wrong. It's far better to drink the blood of your people and to eat thier flesh than to retreat a step."
"The white man came in this country holding the Bible in his left hand and a gun in his right. He stole the people's fertile lands. He stole the people's cattle and goats under the cover of fines and taxes."
"One day I stopped to ask myself: Are these foreigners employing me as an individual, or are they employing the color of my skin? Are they buying my abilities or my blackness? And all at once I realized that I was being used as window-dressing. If our people looked out for foreigners, they would see me at the window of the enterprise; and on seeing me, they would think they saw a bit of themselves reflected in me, and they would think they had a share in the enterprise, and so they would continue to acquiesce in the foreigners' theft, in the belief that they were becoming weathy bit by bit."
These are all selected quotes from Devil on the Cross by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o.
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