Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

I think, again, that that does the whole problem a, a disservice. It's not a case of our wanting to mix socially with whites. And when you - and the whites are right in the South when they say that getting a cup of coffee in a restaurant is not going to solve - is all right.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.