Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

It's all talk til it's all real walk.

Stupidity, once it overcomes its initial state of inertia, is sustained by its own momentum.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.

That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God

Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.

we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.

The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance.