Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.

Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.

I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.

God is more lasting than the white man.

I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.

Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.

I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials.