The price of freedom is death.

Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.