Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.

What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

A Klaner KKK is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.