I Have Lived Those Lines And I

History Could Pass For A Scarlet Text, Its Jot And Title Graven Red In Human Blood.

I've Gone Beyond Civil Rights And Human Rights To Creation Rights.

In Prison, Those Things Withheld From And Denied To The Prisoner Become Precisely What He Wants Most Of All.

The Price Of Hating Other Human Beings Is Loving Oneself Less.

Every Time I Embrace A Black Woman I’m Embracing Slavery, And When I Put My Arms Around A White Woman, Well, I’m Hugging Freedom. The White Man Forbade Me To Have The White Woman On Pain Of Death... I Will Not Be Free Until The Day I Can Have A White Woman In My Bed.