Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win. Charles Evers
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed. Mick Taylor
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Jean Baudrillard
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down. H. Rap Brown
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film. Norman McLaren
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized. H. Rap Brown
I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it. Salmon P. Chase
Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile. Lorraine Hansberry
In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people. H. Rap Brown
All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white? Studs Terkel
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
Saul Alinsky
