The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted.
“As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.”
“Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.”