After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.

If you want to be free be free

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.'

I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.

It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Its never too late to take a moment to look.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith