But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death... I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.