To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.