It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target

All literature is protest.

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.

Today's customer journey is an iterative, complex, pinball of touchpoints.

We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness.

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

I think that you have to believe. That's one of my biggest mantras, is believe. I wouldn't be here if I didn't believe in myself.

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.