Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek.

[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

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.