The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or passively. It's only when they are so-called "fighting for the rights of Negroes" that they nonviolently, passively, and lovingly, you know, approach the situation.

Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving.

When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.

My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.