The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

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.

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain

My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

Everyone's got to have a dream... It's not reaching your dream that counts. It's going toward them.

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education

Partying has never been my thing. I've been around some wild people. I've been in the same room and watched them experiment, and that's been entertaining.