If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or passively. It's only when they are so-called "fighting for the rights of Negroes" that they nonviolently, passively, and lovingly, you know, approach the situation.

You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

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

My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions.