Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

By any means necessary.

I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.