I Worked In The Mechanical Factories Repairing

I Think The Time Is Right For Organizing And To Give Blacks More Political - The Progressive Blacks, You Have To Make A Distinction - Participation, More Blacks In More Authoritative Positions, In More Electoral Political Positions. But We Want The Right Ones.

White America Has Seen To It That Black History Has Been Suppressed In Schools And In American History Books. The Bravery Of Hundreds Of Our Ancestors Who Took Part In Slave Rebellions Has Been Lost In The Mists Of Time, Since Plantation Owners Did Their Best To Prevent Any Written Accounts Of Uprisings.

You Can Jail A Revolutionary, But You Can't Jail The Revolution.

A Rather Honored Guest Of The Cuban Government, So I Wouldn't Experience The Problems. I Think It Would Take A Black Cuban To Really Articulate This Because I'm Being Treated In A Very Generous Way.

During Those Long Years In Oakland Public Schools, I Did Not Have One Teacher Who Taught Me Anything Relevant To My Own Life Or Experience. Not One Instructor Ever Awoke In Me A Desire To Learn More Or To Question Or To Explore The Worlds Of Literature, Science, And History. All They Did Was Try To Rob Me Of The Sense Of My Own Uniqueness And Worth, And In The Process Nearly Killed My Urge To Inquire.