just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most nourishing.

I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than any other race, because our kids have fought here for what was called "democracy"; our mothers and fathers were sold and bought here for a price. So all I can say when they say "go back to Africa," I say "when you send the Chinese back to China, the Italians back to Italy, etc., and you get on that Mayflower from whence you came, and give the Indians their land back, who really would be here at home?"

You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

We have been listening year after year to [white people] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think for ourselves. "I know what is best for you," but they don't know what is best for us! It is time now to let them know what they owe us, and they owe us a great deal.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.