History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death... I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.

Everybody changes, not just me.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.