I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind how big I get, so long as I don't get too close.

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

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

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

The free man is the man with no fears.