Religion Quotes

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

I never was in the Nation of Islam… I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, ’cause it’s just me and God.

I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

Men talk of heaven, – there is no heaven but here; Men talk of hell, – there is no hell but here; Men of hereafters talk and future lives, – O love, there is no other life – but here.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

God is not He who is, but That which is.