White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to stay here mongst each other and git along, that's what.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

... I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fascist. But now, now I think we are in the face of a terrible fascist dictatorship.

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't lucky you is liables to lose all you got.

Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.

Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.