Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

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

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.

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being

I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an atheist that I, another negro inmate whom I'd heard in a discussion with white inmates and who was able to hold his own at all levels. And he impressed me with his knowledge, and I began to listen very carefully to some of the things he said.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'