If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

If you get up everyday and you don't learn you are a fool

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain.

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

If we head in the direction of our dreams and accept the winds and rains that will test our resolve, we can experience the deep satisfaction of looking back upon the path of a life well lived.

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

Enlightenment doesn't mean you know anything. It doesn't mean you don't know anything. It means that you've returned to the source, consciously.

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

Justice delayed is democracy denied.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.