Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.