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I worked with Carl Perkins on a number of shows. Live shows. He just showed up and played. He just killed. Killed! Man ... he was amazing! — Lesley Gore

We are revolutionaries. — Stokely Carmichael

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful! — Stokely Carmichael

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. — Stokely Carmichael

I think Cindy Crawford is awesome. I love her style. — Kendall Jenner

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position. — Stokely Carmichael

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then. — Stokely Carmichael

A Russian drunk is a fascinating creature. Even when he has money, he still prefers poison at a rouble forty. And he won't take the change. — Sergei Dovlatov

The only position for women in SNCC is prone. — Stokely Carmichael

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful. — Stokely Carmichael

An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community. — Stokely Carmichael

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets. — Stokely Carmichael

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. — Stokely Carmichael

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. — Stokely Carmichael

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead! — Stokely Carmichael

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. — Stokely Carmichael

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. — Stokely Carmichael

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle. — Stokely Carmichael

No man can given anybody his freedom. — Stokely Carmichael

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system. — Stokely Carmichael

Now you know where I got my name. — Stokely Carmichael

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. — Stokely Carmichael

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. — Stokely Carmichael

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about. — Stokely Carmichael

It only takes one person to love, but it takes two to make a relationship work. — Jeaniene Frost

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals. — Stokely Carmichael

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function. — Stokely Carmichael

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism. — Stokely Carmichael

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them. — Stokely Carmichael

A man is born free. — Stokely Carmichael

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. — Stokely Carmichael

15 For so is the will of God, that by your good works you would shut the mouth of the foolish who do not know God. — Janet M. Magiera

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself
it is the occurring which is difficult. — Stephen Leacock

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. — Stokely Carmichael

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms. — Stokely Carmichael