The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.