It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government.

At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

The black man in America's position is parallel with that of the Jews, especially when the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. And at no time did Moses in the Bible ever try and integrate the Hebrews into the Egyptian society or accept any hypocritical offers made by the slave master of that day.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits.