Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

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.

Come slowly over the hills and valleys to touch my soul, feel my heart, and vanish in my joy.

One! two! and through and throughThe vorpal blade went snickersnack!He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing back.

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

You more than anyone else dederve to be loved and happy. Do not remain in any relationship that robs you of those two things.

I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.

One thing for certain you will not ever hear from me is praise for dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.

I tried being anorexic for four hours and then i was like, i need some bagels.

Last time I was sick, the guy I was seeing brought me a bottle of ginger ale… and expected me to pay him back for it. ~Jaime Vegas

That same intense, overpowering, and all-encompassing love that you feel for your family can also be utterly terrifying.

There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material.