The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be shouting 'hallelujah's Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back — and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.