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War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

The fight still isn't people of colour versus white. It's the people versus the system built to keep us down. That's the first line of the Constitution. And the system is manmade but is made of no man. Everyone, regardless of class, creed, culture and ethnicity can fight the system and help to break it down.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.

Accomplishments have no color.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.