After I made my tour in the Middle, into the Middle-East and Africa and visited Mecca and other places, I think that the separation [ from the Black Muslim movement] became psychological as well as physical, so that I could look at it more objectively and - and separate that which was good from that which was bad.

God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.

Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.

I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.