It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.

Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions.