If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."

I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."

I got pictures of us and they would draw big red rings around us and tell what they thought of us. I got a letter said, "I have been shot three times throught the heart. I hope I see your second act." But this white man who wants to stay white, and to think for the Negro, he is not only destroying the Negro, he is destroying himself, because a house divided against itself cannot stand and that same thing applies to America.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year after year, these things been happening.

I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.