We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

America just reaped what it had been sowing.

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.

The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when one accepts the religion of Islam, he's known as a Muslim.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine