“You will not be asked about your culture in your grave. And you will not be judged based on your Father’s last name. When the trumpet blares, there will be no more kings, only slaves. And your family traditions will not be able to keep you safe.”

Being rejected from something good just means that Allah is pointing you to something better

Positive things happen when you distance yourself from negative people

That Islam you see on TV does not represent me, I’m too busy waging jihad against myself, My own nafs are my enemy. I’m sorry that Muslim and Muslim lands do not represent Islam, Our religion is perfect, but we on the other hand.

A person worth envying is a person who doesn’t envy

Never underestimate your potential for Jannah

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

Superheroes allow their capes to hang off their backs; but our Superwomen choose to wrap them around their heads.

Cherish the people you love, because you never know when Allah will take them back.

Some sins may help you to remember Allah while some blessings may cause you to forget Him

If you want a Khadija, you gotta be a Muhammed

Hikmah (Wisdom) is knowing when to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

If you have time to worry, you have time to make du’a.

Who asks a king for a penny?

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

For ‘King Cole’s American Salvage,’ I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars.

What’s that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I’ll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.

Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.

I will tell you King’s First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

In my office in Jerusalem, there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible.