Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.

I didn't even need America, I was so popular outside the country, until the prosecutin' attorney came from Washington, and said, judge, we cannot let this man go to Japan and fight, because they are anti-American.Now, if I want to leave the country, I know how to leave. Tomorrow. Quick. Easy. If I really want to leave. That's not the intention. The intention is to stop me from makin' a livin'. To punish me.

Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.

They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.