Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression - the blackness of their skin - and to operate as a group to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude.

To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.