"I don't know what most white people in this country feel. I can only speak for myself, and I can say that I have loved very few white people in my life."

"You can't be free until I'm free."

"The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in everything we do."

"To be absolutely without hope is to be absolutely without fear."

"I’ve been trying for some time to make people realize that America is not an innocent country."