I think many times we charge the Lord for things we can do ourselves. If only we realized how well we have been equipped.

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.

It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.

Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

I'm inconsistent because I'm human.

I would never be fearful of any character.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?

Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.

Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.