Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in the divinity of Elijah Muhammad. We believed in him. We actually believed that God, in Detroit by the way, that God had taught him and all of that. I always believed that he believed in himself. And I was shocked when I found out that he himself didn't believe it.

Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.

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

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own problems, there won't be any explosion, and the Negroes who want to stay with the white man, let them stay with the white man - but those who want to leave, let them go to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.