Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

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.

Google, Facebook helps people than people helps people, in today's world

Every day in life we’re told who this is and who that is. But when we sit we’re all the same when we remove our hat.

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date—one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone.

Challenges bring opportunity for growth.

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.