Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.

More so than any other city on the African continent, the people of Cairo look like the American Negroes in the sense that we have all complexions, we range in America from the darkest black to the lightest light, and here in Cairo it is the same thing; throughout Egypt, it is the same thing. All of the complexions are blended together here in a truly harmonious society.

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.

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

In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it.

The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of Europe on his all fours. Before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. Then he put us in chains and put us aboard the "Good Ship Jesus," and we have lived in hell ever since.