"[B]lack Americans live with a level of poverty that is simply unknown to the vast majority of whites. It’s tempting t…"

"For millions of more ordinary black Americans, [...] even with more income and more education, they’re stuck in segre…"

"To be in the margin is to be part of the whole but outside the main body. As black Americans living in a small Kentuc…"

"The core problem within the ghetto is the vicious circle created by the lack of decent housing, decent jobs and adequ…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."

"this country might have been a pio neer land once. but. there ain't no mo indians blowing custer's mind with a differ…"

"I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't politically defend it."