The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.

The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the community in which we live, which means that we won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other people in other communities in order to get jobs.

Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.

Never allow your enemies to educate your children.

Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.