Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem.

Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as there - between the races as there is in the North. Only they - in the South they let you know - where they stand, and in the North they take a hypocritical approach or attitude or reaction.

Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.

Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room; you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind.

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.

Some things are better done than said.

People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.