I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

God will cause you to prosper, even when man says you won't.

Charlotte blanched. 'I'm only a maid, miss.''A maid is still a woman.

A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.