My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.

True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.

I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.

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