“I've become a lantern bearer, lighting the path this country will take.”

“Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable...”

“It may be that the night will close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come again. Morning always grows out of the darkness, though maybe not for the people who saw the sun go down. We are the Lantern Bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind.”

“Colonialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natural resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.”

“I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.”

“Light is more important than the lantern,The poem more important than the notebook”