It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

We are about to have a racial explosion.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean.

You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear a handkerchief anymore. They wear top hats. They're called Doctor, they're called - Reverend, but they're still - they play the same role today that Uncle Tom played on the plantation.

Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!