The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a devil, that he has no intentions of integrating, then you Negroes will run wild.

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.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

You are either free or not free

The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, it might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated.