"Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?"
"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."
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Source: 1969 'Black Studies: Bringing Back the Person', in the Evergreen Review, Oct.
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