"I am Black. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my re…"

"Black Americans are residents of a settler colony, not truly citizens of the United States. Despite a constitution la…"

"If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those resp…"

"Freedom is never given; it is won."

"My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of i…"

"I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro. When I go to Las Vegas, north Las Vegas, and I would see th…"

"According to Butler, Black men who face constant police intervention handle it in two different ways. In both instanc…"

"Ultimately, the economic foundations of this country must be shaken if black people are to control their lives. The c…"

"The workings of the human mind are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our ki…"

"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, colored men looking for loans and whites who "understand the Negro"."