One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. And what America is trying to do is pass laws to force whites to pretend that they want Negroes into their schools or into - in their places of employment.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

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.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.