Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

There is no depth to education without art.

In America, black is a country.

Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost