Excerpt from the movie The Autobiography of Jane Pittman:

"You've got some black men who will tell you that the white man's the worst thing on the earth. But let me tell you this: ALL men are the same. The same evil you see in whites, you see in blacks, and likewise, the good to be found is in all men, white and black.

THE ENEMY IS NOT SKIN...IT'S INGORANCE!! It was ignorance that put us here in the first place. Ignorance, because the big tribes of Africa warred against each other, or made slaves out the smaller tribes. Our own black people put us in pens like hogs, destroying entire civilizations with rum and beads. And it was still the African, this time the Arabs, who sold us on the block. The white man didn't need guns, because we were weak. The French, the Spanish, the Portuguese, they took us because...we were ignorant! We were apart from one another. You've got folks here saying, 'Let's go back to Africa, let's go back to Liberia.' Well, I am not African! I'm American, a black American and proud of it! Look inside yourself and say, 'What am I? What else besides this black skin?"

Do you know what a nigga is? First, a nigga feels below anything on the face of this earth. He doesn't care about himself. He doesn't care about anybody else. He doesn't care about anything. Now, he'll never be an American, and he'll never be a citizen of any other nation. But there's a big difference between a black American and a nigga. A black American cares, and he knows, and he struggles. That's why I'm telling you this. That's why I know no son or daughter or mine will ever be a nigga! I want my children to be black and proud of it.

This land, this America, belongs to us all. I don't mean that we own it, but that it's Gods, and that makes it as much ours as any man's. You are not bested by no man!

Be Americans, but first...be men."