We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

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

The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking about 'our government is in trouble'. They say, 'The government is in trouble.'

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like.