"The power of the white world is in the fact that it is able to make people believe that they are white."

"The world is full of people who have never had to look at themselves."

"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible."

"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't, you die. Or you don't die, but you don't live."

"The future of the Negro in this country is precisely as bright or as dark as the future of the country."