A man without any history is like a tree without roots

I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

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.