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

We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.