The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.