When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.

You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months.

You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

These were African-Arab-Asian values. The only section of Europe that had a high value system during the Dark Ages was the, were those on the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France.

I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.