Martin Luther King was bumped off unjustly, Adam Clayton Powell was bumped off unjustly, they took my title unjustly, they killed Megers Ever unjustly, all the integrators who love white folks, was unjustly kicked out of Washington, they've been deprived of education and poverty throughout the country.

I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.

I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell - ain't no one woman that good.

I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.