Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

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

The irony of life is we always compare our fantasies with reality, rather than accepting the reality as is and transforming it into a paradise....

A master is one who can effortlessly alternate between a free mind and a controlled mind.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

That's through intelligence, not through ignorance, believe me. Because some of the things that they're asking you to do [in the Army] and be politically correct about are ridiculous.

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

All I've ever wanted to do was create freedom.

Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.

As a writer I try to operate within a framework of Christian principles, and the words that are important to me are religious words: witness, pilgrimage, intention.