My parents did not trust me there was a lot of mistrust…There was this skepticism about white people because of what they had gone through. And I didn't associate with any white people except when I got to junior high.

[to know your whites] ... is to be intimate with some white persons but to critically withhold faith in white people categorically

I wanted to study the enemy on his home grounds.

The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.

Do you distrust the American people so much that you need to know when they bought a couch? Or a cow?

And it’s amazing how they trained them, To be racist against themselves in the place they was raised in, You kept us caged in, Destroyed our culture and said that you civilized us, Raped our women and when we were born, you despised us, Gentrified us, agent provocateur divide us, And crucified every revolutionary messiah

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.