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.

And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.

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

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

In America, black is a country.

What will be / the sacred words?