Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in the white man's house, begging the white man for a job, for food, clothing and shelter. And then after the white man provides him with all of these things, he turns around and get - has the nerve to get angry at the white man when the white man tries to control his life.

As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.

At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.

The Chinese in this country aren't asking for integration.

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.