“Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.”

How can anyone be against love?

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

You can’t have capitalism without racism.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.

How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.

I don’t want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.

Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.

I never liked sleeping in the dark. I have, like, twinkle stars around my bed, so it’s not so bad.

The only music I don’t like is bad music.

If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

You are not making the change because you are a bad person and you are doing it wrong. You make changes because you love yourself and you want to improve the quality of your life.