I've had enough of somebody else's propaganda. I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. - From 1965, The Autobiography.

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.

You trust them (white Americans), and I don't. You studied what he wanted you to learn about him in schools. I studied him in the streets and in prison, where …

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.