I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be.

I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.

I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.