The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.

Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem.