When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of Japan. She dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Those people in Hiroshima probably hadn't even, some of them; most of them hadn't even killed anybody.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion.

If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.