“My main fight is for freedom and equality.”

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

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

If you are not the best, then pretend you are.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

We can’t be brave without fear.

If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.

God gave me this illness to remind me that I’m not Number One; He is.

To succeed, all I need to do is suffer.

I’m young; I’m handsome; I’m fast. I can’t possibly be beat.

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I’m one of those scenarios.

Anytime you’re with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man’s back.

I wear black all the time.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

That’s how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.