For A Colonized People The Most Essential

To Educate The Masses Politically Is To Make The Totality Of The Nation A Reality To Each Citizen. It Is To Make The History Of The Nation Part Of The Personal Experience Of Each Of Its Citizens.

[educated Blacks] Society Refuses To Consider Them Genuine Negroes. The Negro Is A Savage, Whereas The Student Is Civilized. "you're Us," And If Anyone Thinks You Are A Negro He Is Mistaken, Because You Merely Look Like One.

I Am Black: I Am The Incarnation Of A Complete Fusion With The World, An Intuitive Understanding Of The Earth, An Abandonment Of My Ego In The Heart Of The Cosmos, And No White Man, No Matter How Intelligent He May Be, Can Ever Understand Louis Armstrong And The Music Of The Congo.

For The Black Man There Is Only One Destiny. And It Is White.

I Feel My Soul As Vast As The World, Truly A Soul As Deep As The Deepest Of Rivers; My Chest Has The Power To Expand To Infinity. I Was Made To Give And They Prescribe For Me The Humility Of The Cripple.