For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, "Do you hate me?" The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate!

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

Sometimes it's [racial prejudice] like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

White folks still in the lead.

Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity7 is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

The wonder is not that so many Negro boys and girls are ruined but that so many survive.

Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers, you are the Indian.

The natives are unintelligent-We can't understand their language.

I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.