And when I say it, they get alarmed... 'Cause I'm louder than a bomb.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

I'm not the type of guy that will make you happy. I'm the type of guy that will make you forget how unhappy we all are.

Pay attention! At all moments of the day you are either leading or being led.

When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

I think initially the impetus for doing stuff yourself comes from your love of other music.

one more creature dizzy with love

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.