Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power.

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

The biggest form of slavery is the slavery to fear

Pull yourself out of the dirt, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse and ride towards the sunset.

Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips.

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.

There never is but one opportunity of a kind.

Sometimes you can hide just as effectively by sticking out.

Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and it's a risk! Don't you think?

How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.