Black is beautiful.

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

A young white boy's badness is simply the overflowing of young animal spirits; the black boy's badness is badness, pure and simple.

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

The Negro's primary aim is to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

White society has crippled the Negro for over three centuries, then we self-righteously blame them for limping.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.