You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

I always asked my mother, I said, 'Momma, how come is everything white?' I said, 'Why is Jesus white with blond hair and blue eyes? Why is the Lord's supper all white men? Angels are white, the Pope, Mary, and even the angels.' I said, 'Mother, when we die, do we go to Heaven?' She said, 'Naturally we go to Heaven.' I said, 'Well, what happened to all the black angels?'

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.