The Best Corey Hawkins Quotes

Master Patrolman Andy Landers: [making an arrest] Black bitch, you get this Black Panther out of Colorado Springs before sunrise, you hear me? Or you'll all go to jail.
Kwame: We were born in jail!

Kwame: I'd rather see a Brotha kill a white racist cop than kill a Vietnamese. Because, at least, if he kills a racist cop he's doing it for a reason. Because, they are shooting black people in the backs, in these streets, right here, in this very country. They're killing us like dogs! Right here! Right here!

Kwame: Black Power also means that we must unite. We must unite and we must organize a base to fight racism! To fight our oppressors!

Kwame: It takes time to become free of the lies and their shaming effects on the black mind. It takes time to reject the most Important lie: that black people can't do the same things that white people can do - unless a white person helps them.

Kwame: Arm yourself, Brotha. Get ready. Cause the Revolution is coming. Pick up a gun and arm yourself. Because, trust me, it's coming.

Patrice: Black Power! The Black Student Union of Colorado College is honored to bring the vanguard of revolutionaries fighting for the rights of black people all over the world. Let's show some black love to the one and only, the Brotha man with the plan, who is sticking it to the man. Put your hands together, my people, for our Kwame Ture.
Kwame: Thank you Sista Patrice and the Black Student Union. I want to thank all of you, my beloved Sista's and Brotha's, for comin' out tonight. But, I'm here tonight to tell you that it is time for you to stop running away from being black. It is time for you to stop running away from being black! You're college students, right? You should think. It is time for you to understand that *you* as the growing intellectuals of this country, that *you* must define beauty for black people. Now that's Black Power!

Kwame: Is beauty defined as someone with a narrow nose? Thin lips? White skin? Hell no! Cause you ain't got none of that. Our lips are thick. Our noses broad. Our hair is nappy! We are black and we are beautiful!

Kwame: I just want to leave you, Sista's and Brotha's, with these last words. If I am not for myself, who will I be? If I am for myself alone, who am I? If not now, when? And if not you, who? We need an undying love for black people, wherever we may be. All power to all the people.

Kwame: That war in Vietnam, it is not only Illegal, it is immoral. And you know what I tell them: Hell no, we won't go!