Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is - and that's in their own home communities.

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.