While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.

... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.