“You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.”

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

Too much agreement kills chat.

Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom.

Everybody changes, not just me.

If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.

This cruel world fails to embrace the beauty of tender souls and then wonders why everyone turns cold?

People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

The Bible tells us that jealousy is as cruel as the grave.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.