I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

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.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.

I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything

A cat that's inside of your house that is angry and dissatisfied and hostile is more dangerous to you than a full-grown lion is on the outside.

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.