For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim.

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything.

... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.