I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

I can look at a chick who's a little out of shape and if she turns me on, I won't hesitate to date her. If she's a good f**k she can weigh 150 pounds, I don't care.

It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.

I think I might have a bad psychic advisor. When I asked her to contact the dead, she gave me Keith Richards' phone number.

All knowledge is worth having

Every offense is avenged on earth.

There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child