When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.

Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]

America is a white man's country.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

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.

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.