A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power.

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

A good question is always a question that helps you and me grow, no matter what the answer might be.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.