Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Work hard to discover your gift and you will never envy or hate another human being who is manifesting theirs.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

I'm not trying to put our women on a pedestal that they don't deserve to be on. No man is a "man" without a woman: It's a woman that helps the man to be a man.

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims.

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.

Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk. Exalt them because they're worthy.

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.

Why does it have to come down to choosing just one man, when no one man can give me everything I want?

One must take what nature gives as one finds it.

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.

I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.