Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.
Source: Message to the Black Man.
-- Elijah Muhammad, (Oct 7 1897-1975), US religious leader; He founded the black separatist religious group The Nation of Islam, also called Black Muslims; later renamed World Community of Islam by his son.