I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go out of business as a people. Nobody's going to have any mercy. And nobody's going to have any compunction about making slaves out of them.

If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

I believe in doing good for good's sake.

Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.

I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.