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.

Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!

The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the community in which we live, which means that we won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other people in other communities in order to get jobs.

Only the mistakes were mine.

It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.