"I absolutely reject the premise there is anything wrong with Black people “talking white”. It is as if to vast swathe…"

"You cannot look at the success of black people by seeing who is on the front of Ebony magazine or by looking at Oprah…"

"Reflected here is life as I lived it, my thoughts and feelings as I remember them. Here, too, are my personal exchang…"

"Oakland is the birthplace of this party. Oakland will be the birthplace of revolution in the United States. And that …"

""Together we're going to take this city. We will ake it a base of revolution. The pigs will look at us and wonder. Th…"

"To say that I loved Huey, however, even at that moment would be to say too little I loved being loved by him. I loved…"

""Freedom" was the watchword. "Free enterprise," they meant, the men whose monopolies controlled the United States of …"

"A post-war anti-Communist paranoia was constructed by J. Edgar Hoover, a friend and manipulator of every president si…"

"I was in a small, private world in the arms of Huey Newton; and also in a bigger world in the arms of Huey Newton."

"A women in the Black Power movement was considered, at best, irrelevant. A woman asserting herself was a pariah. A wo…"