My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals - for the good of both!

Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!