“I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.”

“I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.”

“I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.”

“There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.”

“Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.”

“I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.”

“I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.”

“If you stop struggling then you stop life.”

“Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach. Then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.”