“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa …” — Malcolm X

When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.

In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'

The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'

History proves that the white man is a devil.