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.

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

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.

We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook

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.

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

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.