I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.

The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that twenty-two million Black people have not risen up against their oppressors in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria and even by the democratic traditions.

They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

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

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.