The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.