If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.