There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.