If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

I believe in doing good for good's sake.

Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.

We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.