I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

The common enemy is the white man.

I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything