We have got to stop the nervous Nellies and the Toms from going to the Man's place. I don't believe in killing, but a good whippin...g behind the bushes wouldn't hurt them.... These bourgeoisie Negroes aren't helping. It's the ghetto Negroes who are leading the way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gee, boy, when you sing, I can close my ears And hear tom-toms just as plain.... Listen to me, will you, what do I know About tom-toms? But I like the word, sort of, Don't you? It belongs to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposit...e extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. Is not our native soil auriferous? Does not a stream from the golden mountains flow through our native valley? and has not this for more than geologic ages been bringing down the shining particles and forming the nuggets for us? Yet, strange to tell, if a digger steal away, prospecting for this true gold, into the unexplored solitudes around us, there is no danger that any will dog his steps, and endeavor to supplant him. He may claim and undermine the whole valley even, both the cultivated and the uncultivated portions, his whole life long in peace, for no one will ever dispute his claim. They will not mind his cradle or his toms. He is not confined to a claim twelve feet square,... but may mine anywhere, and wash the whole wide world in his tom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »