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

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language.

My sincerity is my credentials.