America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C.

When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.

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.

The only thing power respects, is power.

When you are equal with another person, the problem of integration doesn't even arise.