Black Power Quotes

• Black Power, in short, is an attitude, an inward affirmation of the essential worth of blackness. It means that the black man will not be poisoned by the stereotypes that others have of him, but will affirm from the depth of his soul : "Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone." 16 And "if the white man challenges my humanity, I will impose my whole weight as a man on his life and show him that I am not that `sho good eatin' that he persists in imagining.

  

  James Hal Cone
  • Affirmation
  • Inward
  • Black Power

• In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Weakness
  • Analysis
  • Black Power

• It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Pain
  • Disappointment
  • Philosophical