More so than any other city on the African continent, the people of Cairo look like the American Negroes in the sense that we have all complexions, we range in America from the darkest black to the lightest light, and here in Cairo it is the same thing; throughout Egypt, it is the same thing. All of the complexions are blended together here in a truly harmonious society.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.

If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.