We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

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

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.

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.