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I believe that the reason I’ve been able to be so successful, is because my focus has never been on money. The fact that money has come has really been a surprise to me, but money has never been my focus. You know that you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not get paid for it. I would do this job, and take a second job to make ends meet even if nobody paid me, just for the opportunity to do it. That’s how you know you are doing the right thing. As long as I can be an influence and make a difference. That’s what I want to do.

God calls us to be faithful, not successful. He calls us to pursue those dreams that are in our hearts, and to pursue them with all of our might. Sometimes we’ll be able to change lives, and sometimes the only life we can see changed is our own lives. God’s scoreboard is different from ours. He does want to bless us, but his scoreboard doesn’t use money, or material possession, or fame, or status. He judges by the state of our heart, and our desire to serve him. Don’t ever sell yourself short, God’s purpose is greater than man’s purpose.

What’s wrong with me going to jail for something I believe in? Boys are dying in Vietnam for something they don’t believe in. I met 2 black soldiers in the airport, and they said champ it takes a lot of guts to do what you’re doing. I told them brother you just don’t know. If you knew your chances of coming home with no arms, no legs, no eyes. Fighting Asian brothers in their own country, and they never lynched you, they never called you Nigger. They never put dogs on you, they never killed your leaders. You go and shoot people that haven’t done anything to you, and as soon as you get home you won’t be able to find a job, so going to jail is nothing compared to that. We’ve come too far to turn around. They got to either free me or put me in jail. Because I’m going to take a stand, even if I have to go to jail, even if I have to die I’m ready.

As a young musician we would hit the road and go to places like Texas . Sometimes we would see effigies like black dummies hanging by nooses from church steeples. That was pretty heavy man to see black dummies hanging from church steeples. That meant don’t stop, don’t even think about coming here. We always had a white bus driver, because we couldn’t go in the restaurants. We would get to places and we would get the white bus driver to go in and get the food for the band. There were no hotels and I remember Jimmy Scott and I slept in a funeral parlor, where the bodies where. This guy told us that we could stay there for two days. We made 17 dollars a night, and you’re not thinking about getting a suite at the Waldorf.

I don’t see myself as middle class despite all of the money I’ve earned. I come from the street, I come from the people. Middle class people often forget where they came from. As black people we are still fighting for our rights. I am an Ambassador for blacks. If there were 10 more black musicians as free as I am to play this part, it would make things much better.

God didn’t call America to do what she’s doing in the world now. God didn’t call America to engage in a senseless unjust war, as the war in Vietnam . We are criminals in that war. We’ve committed more war crimes, than almost any nation in the world, and I’m going to continue to say it. America won’t stop it because of our pride and arrogance as a nation, but God has a way of even putting Nations in their place. The God that I worship has a way of saying, don’t play with me. Be still and know that I am God, and if you don’t stop your reckless course. I’ll rise up and break the backbone of your power, and that can happen to America.

If you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it. Then you are not fit to live. You might be 38 years old as I happen to be, and one day you are called upon to stand up for some great principle or cause, and you refuse because you are afraid. You refuse to do it because you want to live longer. You are afraid that you will lose your job. You are afraid that you will be criticized by others. You are afraid that you will lose your popularity, or you are afraid that somebody will stab you, or shoot at you, or bomb your house. So you refuse to take a stand. Well you may go on and live to be 90 years old, but you are already dead. You died when you refused to stand up for right. You died when you refused to stand up for truth. You died when you refused to stand up for justice. Don’t ever think that you are by yourself. Go to jail if necessary, but you never go alone. Take a stand for that which you know is right. The world might misunderstand you and criticize you, but you are never alone. One with God is the majority.

You foolish men and women that worship preachers and teachers, you foolish people that worship your political leaders, so when they die you fall apart. I pity the fool that worship me, any man that worships me now that’s a pitiful fool. I am a man, and I can make mistakes. I can fail you but God will never fail you. Don’t look to man as your source of strength, look to God as your source of strength, but some of you foolish people are looking for things to worship, and the things that you worship are less than yourself. I want to worship the one that Jesus worshiped. Jesus looked to God for his strength. I was born into this world and I will die, and it’s foolish if you put your trust in me. What will you do when I’m no longer here? Put all of your trust in God, not man.

Have you noticed all of your life you can get a good laugh out of white people, as long as you act a fool. As long as you will jump up on stage and dance and sing evil and filthy songs. You are alright with them, you pull off half of your clothes up there, and show the world the filth of yourselves. That‘s all they want the so called Negro for, is to show the world that he the white man, made a fool out of one of your members. As long as the good people of the world refuses you, then he can laugh and say oh I beat your God.

As a young minister I wouldn’t have considered it possible for me to love any woman. I had too much experience that women were only tricky, deceitful, untrustworthy flesh. I had seen too many men ruined or tied down, or in some other way messed up by women. Women talk too much, and to tell a woman not to talk too much, would be like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or telling a hen not to cackle. Can you imagine Jesse James without a gun, or a hen that didn’t cackle, and for anyone in leadership or position as I am. The worst thing in the world that a man could have, is the wrong woman. Samson was destroyed by the woman that slept in his arms. It had been 10 years since I thought anything about a woman or a mistress, and as a minister now I was thinking even less about getting a wife.

The reason that most black business fail, is because they are selling a product that they bought from white man. They themselves have gone to the white man, to purchase something to resale to you. Everything that’s in the Negro store is a resale, and he has to resale it at a price high enough to get his investment back. The black person that’s in business is acting as a salesman for the white wholesaler, and the white producer. The real owner of merchandise that the black business man is selling, is the white man. He robs you when he sells it to you, and you have to turn around and rob your people in order to get your money back, and then you wonder why they won’t come in your store. As black people we have to learn to produce something. We have to be producers as well as consumers, and then we can set the sale price at a low cost. If you produced the product that you sold, then you would be eliminating the middle man, and you could sell to your people at a low cost. Everything that leaves your pocket goes into the pocket of the white man. We are being robbed because we produce nothing of our own. Mr. Muhammad said that we must be producers as well as consumers. I don’t care if you have a million dollars business, if you are not producing anything, then you are just a rich slave. I don’t care how wealthy you are, if you are not producing you are just a slave for your master. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that it is better to be independent, than dependent.

White people knew the Negro better than the Negro knew himself. They knew that the Negro would spend every dollar, nickel, and penny he earned. White people planned to get back every penny they paid the Negro in salary. The Negro hasn’t sense enough to see it. Negros love luxuries, they bought silk shirts that cost 10 dollars a piece. They bought dresses and suits that cost 100 dollars. No other race of people have lived like this. The Jews save at least 50% of what they earn. The Italians save at least 60% of what they earn, but what have the Negro saved? Who made those factory silk shirts, and those expensive silk socks that you bought? Who sold them to you, it was the white man. It grieves me, it brings me to tears. When I see a race not of children, but of matured minds playing with their destiny.