Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours.

Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years.

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.