All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

It is not black people that mess up a city, it is the stupid way white cops react when decent black folk are in the city.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.