[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Simplicity is, as simple as you make it.

Every moment is a fresh new beginning, a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.

I don't think that an artificially intelligent system that has superhuman intelligence will be violent. I do think that it will disrupt our culture.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.

Our whole goal is to drive the cost of taking an Uber BELOW the cost of owning a car.