I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.

What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

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.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

[White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't even give the basic human rights to over twenty-two million of its citizens. This is aud-, this is, this takes audacity; this takes nerve. So it is this attitude today that's causing the Americans to be condemned.