There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

Miss America was always white. All the beautiful brown women in America, beautiful sun tans, beautiful shapes, all types of complexions, but she always was white.And Miss World was always white, and Miss Universe was always white.And the angel fruit cake was the white cake and the devil food cake was the chocolate cake.I said, 'Momma, why is everything white?' I always wondered. And the President lived in the White House.

Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods... I don’t want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was 12, but I didn’t know what I was doing. I’m not a Christian anymore. I know where I’m going and I know the truth and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.