Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

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

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem.

The only thing power respects, is power.

As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and wait for him to correct these conditions, he is - he is misrepresenting the thinking of the black masses, and he's doing the white man a disservice because he's making the white man be more complacent than he would be if he knew the dangerous situation that is building up right inside his own house.