In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

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 am a PR disaster because I talk too much.

She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can.

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

I'm not the master of the sax, George Garzone is.

The same spirit runs through everything I do.

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.

Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.