Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.

Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.

I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.