When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of Japan. She dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Those people in Hiroshima probably hadn't even, some of them; most of them hadn't even killed anybody.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

You can't have capitalism without racism.

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

Because once the black man becomes the political master of his own community, it means that the politicians of that community will also be black, which also means that he then will be sending black representation or representatives not only to represent him at the local level and at the state level, but, but even at the federal level.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology