I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

That's one huge puppy.

Authors can alter your life.

everything is negotiable. everything.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.