If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.

By explaining the difference between segregation and separation. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. If I have children and they live in my house, I care for them, they're dependent upon me. And their dependence upon me puts me in a position to regulate their lives, control their lives, tell them where to go, where they can't go. That's a form of segregation.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.