To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.