I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

Those who stay here can help those who go back, and those who go back can help those who stay here in the same way that when Jews go to Israel, the Jews in America help those in Israel and the Jews in Israel help those in America.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.