I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

I don't look like no kiwi bird

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.

I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!

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 try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.