The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

I grew up in the country on a farm it was whenever someone said even that a snake was eating the chickens or bothering the chickens, we'd kill snakes. We never knew whether that was the snake that did it.

The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.

That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck.

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.

White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.