The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent