I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites.
The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that’s been coming from the right and those who cater to angry white men. Right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Bob Grant, Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan and others take to the air every day with basically the same format: Detail a problem, blame the government or a group and invite invective from like-minded people. Never do most of the radio hosts encourage outright violence, but the extent to which their attitudes may embolden or encourage some extremists has clearly become an issue.
However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated targeted for those shootings — even though most come at the hands of white dudes.
I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.
The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages
You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken,. . . a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.
After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.
Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that if the - what should happen is the black man himself should learn how to develop himself, in the same sense that the white man has developed himself. Then they can both come together and recognize each other as equals.
The white man gets all the best catchphrases!
The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.
The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.