It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.