With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

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.

Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat

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

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.