Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child.

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness.

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision.

Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate.

What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?