The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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.
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.