Certain Things Need To Be Said If

For A Colonized People The Most Essential Value, Because The Most Concrete, Is First And Foremost The Land: The Land Which Will Bring Them Bread And, Above All, Dignity.

No Attempt Must Be Made To Encase Man, For It Is His Destiny To Be Set Free.

Hate Demands Existence, And He Who Hates Has To Show His Hate In Appropriate Actions And Behaviors; In A Sense, He Has To Become Hate. That Is Why The Americans Have Substituted Discrimination For Lynching.

What I Call Middle-class Society Is Any Society That Becomes Rigidified In Predetermined Forms, Forbidding All Evolution, All Gains, All Progress, All Discovery. I Call Middle-class A Closed Society In Which Life Has No Taste, In Which The Air Is Tainted, In Which Ideas And Men Are Corrupt. And I Think That A Man Who Takes A Stand Against This Death Is In A Sense A Revolutionary.

In The World Through Which I Travel, I Am Endlessly Creating Myself.