White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.

I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the Negroes who accepted it and he said, "Yes." So I asked him then what was it about it that he considered to be so danger, and he, dangerous, and he pointed out that it was the cohesiveness that it produced among the inmates. They stuck together.

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

If not now then when, if not me then who?

The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

In Harlem, for instance, all of the stores are owned by white people, all of the buildings are owned by white people. The black people are just there - paying rent, buying the groceries; but they don't own the stores, clothing stores, food stores, any kind of stores; don't even own the homes that they live in. They are all owned by outsiders, and for these run-down apartment dwellings, the black man in Harlem pays more money than the man down in the rich Park Avenue section.