But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'