The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die.

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

I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me.

I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.