The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

He is currently serving a life sentence for murder following the 2000 shooting of two Fulton County Sheriff's deputies both African-American. He is perhaps most famous for his proclamation during that period that "violence is as American as cherry pie" as well as once stating that "If America don't come around we're gonna burn it down". Rap Brown was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s and during a short-lived (six months) alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party he served as their Minister of Justice.