The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

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

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.