An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking about 'our government is in trouble'. They say, 'The government is in trouble.'

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.