The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world.

Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison].

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.

You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.

All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.

There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed.

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