You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.

The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a devil, that he has no intentions of integrating, then you Negroes will run wild.