Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

- John Oliver Killens

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.

- John Oliver Killens

Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

- John Oliver Killens

Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.

- John Oliver Killens

The Negro was invented in America.

- John Oliver Killens

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

- John Oliver Killens

Along with the fight to desegregate schools, we must desegregate the entire cultural statement of America, we must desegregate the minds of the Ameri…

- John Oliver Killens

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

- John Oliver Killens

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road …

- John Oliver Killens