In Africa, the woman was co-equal. In Europe, the woman was a vassal. To some extent, she still is.

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.

...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

I try to show the freedom to be yourself, unapologetically and irreverently.

I'm very much open to the possibilities.

If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.