It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

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.

The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter. But he's teaching the black people to suffer peacefully, patiently, until the white man makes up his mind that you're a human being the same as he.

Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.

The only minority in America that's asking for integration is the so-called Negro, primarily because he is inferior, not inherently inferior, but he's economically, socially, politically inferior.

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