We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

The Negro was invented in America.

Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

What do you think the world is if not just an endless parade of madness? To make war is madness. To seek power is madness." She laughed louder, throwing her arms wide. "And madness is glorious!

Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails.

To smile sincerely is acceptable after making mistakes – that is the best way to feel cheerful and repeat the same mistakes.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Those who invest only to get rich will fail. Those who invest to help others will probably succeed.

We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us.

If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced.

Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time.

When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.