All the gods are dead except the god of war |
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. |
And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, sunlit place but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins. |
He used to be a Panther. It was hard to believe. |
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. |
I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. |
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die. |
If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America. |
if god himself wills such misery on people whom i love, then i say i will deal with him |
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. |
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. |
The ''paper tiger'' hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet. |
The opressor has no right to which the oppressed is bound to respect. |
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. |
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. |