I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him

Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat

Everybody changes, not just me.

The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.