Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

You're as good as anybody.

The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind.

I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.