Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them.

History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future.

If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal?

Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other.

As a strong and proud and intelligent Black man I have no problem expressing my respect for and adoration of the Black woman. Simply put, I love you. I love the Black woman.

Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?""What's the point?" said Ron. "You know it by heart, we can just ask you.

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.