Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

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

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.

I have gone through the process of re-evaluating, giving a personal re-evaluation to everything that I ever believed and that I did believe while I was a, a member and a minister.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. ...I knew that no one would kill you quicker than Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do.