Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

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.

When I walk in the front door after a shift, Lucy, I want your mouth on mine before I even get my jacket off

Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.

I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.

Definitely I had a lot of times where I was really hard on myself. Really frustrated. But I never felt like I had someplace else to go. Just had to stay here and deal with this.

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.