[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy.

If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign countries, and broaden their own scope, and come back and educate the movements they represented, not only would this have made the groups to which they belonged more enlightened and more worldly in the international sense, but it also would have given the independent African states abroad a better understanding of the groups in the United States, and what they stand for, what they represent.

The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me.

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

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!