Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.

Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to get published and very dangerous.

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?

to be black is to be very-hot.

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

Ideas and their creators run the world…one’s place in the world is due partially to the ideas that a culture has forced on one and/or the ideas that a person “freely” accepts and uses.

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

All nights end, and all storms clear. The only storms that last are those within your own soul.

I'm a living example of getting into films backwards. Merely by accident. Exposure to films and ideas is the best thing that colleges can do.

Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.

It's weird for me when someone asks me to do a remix as Girl Talk and not use samples.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.

I miss the woods. Sometimes I go on weekend trips and just wander the woods, barefoot and reminiscing, and I put my contact lenses in. Is that weird?

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.