Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

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 oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.