To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

We are about to have a racial explosion.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

The white press itself created civil right leaders.

Let's cool it, brothers.

A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.