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. 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.

The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being achieved when in reality the artificially integrated circles are a soporfic to the blacks while salving the consciences of the few guilt-stricken whites.

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

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.

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society. We do not need to apologise for this because it is true that the white systems have produced through the world a number of people who are not aware that they too are people.