Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.

It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.

In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions and attitudes.

I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything

The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek.