BLACK POWER SPEAKS
"BLACK POWER IS BLACK LANGUAGE"
"Take the English language. There are cats who come here from Italy, from Germany, from Poland, from France, in two generations they speak English perfectly. We have NEVER spoken English correctly. Never have we spoken English correctly: never, never, never. And that is because our people consciously resisted a language that did not belong to us, never did, never will. Anyhow they try to run it down our throats, we ain’t going to have it! We ain’t going to have it! You must understand that as a level of resistance. Anybody can speak that simple honky’s language correctly. Anybody can do it. We have not done it because we have resisted… resisted."
-Stokley Carmichael, "Free Huey" speech, 1968
-Stokley Carmichael, "Free Huey" speech, 1968