The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you will let anyone come in and take control of the economy of your community, control the housing, control the education, control the jobs, control the businesses, under the pre-text that you want to integrate. No, you outta your mind.

More so than any other city on the African continent, the people of Cairo look like the American Negroes in the sense that we have all complexions, we range in America from the darkest black to the lightest light, and here in Cairo it is the same thing; throughout Egypt, it is the same thing. All of the complexions are blended together here in a truly harmonious society.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

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

I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.