A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.

At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.