I Would Put Books On Par With

If You're Creating A Slave Situation, You Would Almost Never Bring Women. And If We Look At Slavery For Example, We Look At The Greeks And The Romans, Right? It Was Always Men. They Never Brought Any Women. Because Women Carry The Seeds Of The Revolution, Right? And If You Have The Men By Themselves, Then You Can Do What The French Did With The Blackfeet, Which Is Breed Them Out.

Love Is The Offspring Of Spiritual Affinity And Unless That Affinity Is Created In A Moment, It Will Not Be Created For Years Or Even Generations.

Style Has A Profound Meaning To Black Americans. If We Can’t Drive, We Will Invent Walks And The World Will Envy The Dexterity Of Our Feet. If We Can’t Have Ham, We Will Boil Chitterlings; If We Are Given Rotten Peaches, We Will Make Cobblers; If Given Scraps, We Will Make Quilts; Take Away Our Drums, And We Will Clap Our Hands. We Prove The Human Spirit Will Prevail. We Will Take What We Have To Make What We Need. We Need Confidence In Our Knowledge Of Who We Are.

You Know A Person Is Having A Severe Personality Crisis If You See A High School Class Ring On A Finger Beyond The First Semester In College. Male Or Female. It's A Big Sign Saying Nothing Has Mattered To My Life Since Senior Year.

It's Not A Ladder We're Climbing, It's Literature We're Producing. . . . We Cannot Possibly Leave It To History As A Discipline Nor To Sociology Nor Science Nor Economics To Tell The Story Of Our People.