Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.

Change the way people think and things will never be the same

The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different

The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!

Only when the flower vase will be itself in bloom, only then we got the real wonder of poetry

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page sunrise over the desert and masses of a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

The word love carries the same vibration in any language.

That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.

Taxing less and spending more.. it's fun in the short run, but it's a recipe for disaster.