Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.

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.

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.

Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It's all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We just make the choices in terms of what situations we're going to eat.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

Excellence Matters. Excellent people. Excellent vision. Excellent marketing. Excellent strategies.

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.