[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false.

Stop giving complaints to people about what you can't do. Start giving compliments to God for what you can do. It'll amaze you

Someday, I suppose I’ll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I’ll probably be rocking fast, because I don’t know what I’ll do without a job.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

I am not the leader; I am a representative of the leader. The leader is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, whom we believe is very much alive, and is directing me from where he is.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.