Actually, the world and America is upset and the only way to bring about a change is to upset it more.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!

I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.

I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].

My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.