They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

Determine your destination, choose a path, now with all your heart start going there.

To honor the self is to be willing to think independently, to live by our own mind, and to have the courage of our own perceptions.

People used to play with toys.Now the toys play with them.

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

* The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution

I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".