Power Is The Ability To Define Phenomena,

We Have Two Evils To Fight, Capitalism And Racism. We Must Destroy Both Racism And Capitalism.

There Will Be No Prison Which Can Hold Our Movement Down.

I Do Not Expect The White Media To Create Positive Black Male Images.

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.

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.