In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Too much agreement kills a chat.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

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

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death... I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.