I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs.

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

Some gems for the greatest of them all