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.

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

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

A cat that's inside of your house that is angry and dissatisfied and hostile is more dangerous to you than a full-grown lion is on the outside.

You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.