How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language!

One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values.

Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits.

I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.

When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability.

When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.

It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you’re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people with you to back you up - planes over your head and all that kind of stuff. But a guerrilla is on his own. All you have is a rifle, some sneakers and a bowl of rice, and that’s all you need - and a lot of heart.