The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

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.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.

There is no depth to education without art.

When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.