Your Lord is bountiful to mankind: yet most of them do not give thanks.

There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.

Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.

Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first and last, maker and owner of the universe.

Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave

Whoever knows himself knows God.

Accept your own and be yourself!

No nation respects a beggar.

Asking good questions is half of learning.

The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.

The atheist suicide bomber is unfaithfully committed to his mission

Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

I'm not a natural comedian, as an artist. I studied comedy growing up. I would watch Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, all day.

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Here's the secret to weight loss: It's all about crowding out, not cutting out.

Women's work is always toward wholeness.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.