Steven Biko — South African Activist born on December 18, 1946, died on September 12, 1977

Stephen Bantu Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s... (wikipedia)

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.