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You cannot look at the success of black people by seeing who is on the front of Ebony magazine or by looking at Oprah. When you consider that only 1 percent of all business revenue comes from black-owned businesses, you have to ask yourself if this class disparity is the kind of society we want.

— Elaine Brown UCLA Thurgood Marshall Lecture (2008)

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I was in a small, private world in the arms of Huey Newton; and also in a bigger world in the arms of Huey Newton.

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (1992)

It was in the name of freedom that surviving Nazis were employed by the U.S. government, and Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were burned at the stake of the state.

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (1992)

A time will come when the people will understand their power and the pigs' machinery will be unable to accommodate their demands. That is when the people, black people and poor white people and oppressed people all over America will rise up like mighty tide and clean this beachfront of capitalism and racism, and make the revolution.

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (1992)

"Oakland is the birthplace of this party. Oakland will be the birthplace of revolution in the United States. And that will be so despite the pigs. It will be so despite any petty despots who claim to be our comrades. It will be so despite the criticism of the infantile leftists, who have accomplished nothing. It will be done despite the voodoo drums of the so-called Black Nationalists."

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (1992)

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