No black person married to a white person can speak for me!

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety.

Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action.

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.