Elijah Muhammad Quotes
Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.
Quotes to Explore
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' - but the mystics don't deal with feelings but with love which is a very different thing. You have too many 'feelings,' but not nearly enough love.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
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Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.
