Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.

Change the way people think and things will never be the same

The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration.

What can you do to ensure that your voice value translates into impression value?

Human has the ability to believe in something wrong as if it is true.

Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care.

Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

My love for my country is my religion.

The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.