The Five Percenters Quotes

“Many former members of the Nation continued their religious lives outside the mosque, maintaining study of the Supreme Wisdom Lessons and even teaching them to non-Muslims, often teenagers and adolescents. Access to the text was no longer reliant on adherence to the Nation’s dress codes, puritanical rules of conduct, Muhammad Speaks sales quotas and hierarchical chains of command. The truths of the lessons—that the black man was God, the white man Satan—were now provided a more direct line to frustrated black youth in America’s major cities.”
― Michael Muhammad Knight, The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip-hop and the Gods of New York

“Harlem! The Mecca of the New Negro! My God! Carl Van Vechten”
― Michael Muhammad Knight, The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip-hop and the Gods of New York