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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
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
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