I joined the military and when going to boot camp, I read Paul Robson's Here I Stand . When I got to boot camp, a sergeant spotted the book, took it from me and said, your Negro mind is fill with this Negro stuff. He tore the pages out, gave a page to each man and said he wanted them to use it as toilet tissue. And he didn't want to see that type of Negro reading again. And I said that if ideas were that powerful to cause the reaction I got, I was going into the idea business.
Ideas are important.
The writing of ideas, the publishing of ideas, and the purveying of ideas. Today, the Third World Press is the oldest Black publishing company in this nation.