Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language.

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.