• A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of positive accretions from oppressor and other cultures, they return to the upward paths of their own culture, which is nourished by the living reality of its environment, and which negates both harmful influences and any kind of subjection to foreign culture. Thus, it may be seen that if imperialist domination has the vital need to practice cultural oppression, national liberation is necessarily an act of culture

    Amilcar Cabral: A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if,
 without complexes and without underestimating the importance of positive accretions from
 oppressor and other cultures, they return to the upward paths of their own culture, which is
 nourished by the living reality of its environment, and which negates both harmful influences
 and any kind of subjection to foreign culture. Thus, it may be seen that if imperialist
 domination has the vital need to practice cultural oppression, national liberation is necessarily
 an act of culture