The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.

Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.

All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well.

African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation.

Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a test.