If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

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.

There will be things I won't tell you ever, Then there will be things that you won't ever listen. Then...

You own what you own not by money or force, but by your love for it and your inner connection to it.

If you take real-life circumstances and take out all the pauses then you have a thriller. It has to be non-stop, high stakes and fascinating all the time. Real life is like that from time to time.

The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?

Dream big and love bigger.

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!

Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.