Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease

Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready.

At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

Let's cool it, brothers.

I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking about 'our government is in trouble'. They say, 'The government is in trouble.'