Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.

Stretch your mind and fly.