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.

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

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.

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

Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

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

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

Black is beautiful.