In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

We can't teach what we don't know, and we can't lead where we can't go

And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might personally meet a fatal catastrophe first - 'non-violent' Dr. King, or so-called 'violent' me.

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.