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.

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

By any means necessary.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.