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.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per - as a person has not committed any of the deeds that has produced the plight that the negro finds himself in, is he guiltless? The only way you can determine that is, take the negro child who's only four-years-old. Can he escape, though he's only four years old, can he escape the stigma of discrimination and segregation? He's only four-years-old.