My alma mater was books, a good library.
I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don’t believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.
The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman.
Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.
We don’t go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything. You have yours and you control yours; we have ours and we control ours.
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.
The white man was created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.
But they don’t use law-they use law for their interests. They don’t go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.
After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.
Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.
We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.
Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.
Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.
Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated.
Yes, I’m an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn’t an extremist and I’ll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.
You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.
Speaking like this doesn’t mean that we’re anti-white, but it does mean we’re anti-exploitation, we’re anti-degradation, we’re anti-oppression.
Growing is the result of learning.
Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren’t Americans yet.