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

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.

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

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

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

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.

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.

Change the way people think and things will never be the same

The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country

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

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.

They laughed.They kissed.They loved.

Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

The plans differ; the planners are all alike.

You can just stay in oblivion, going through your days and your life and your experiences, staying with your friends, family. If that suits you, it's good. But for some people, it's not enough.

The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.

There could never really be justice on stolen land.

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

There's just something that feels nice about holding a comic book!