People don't want truth, they just want trash.

The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.

I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.

In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese rebels, specifically Commanders Athol's and Yaka's armies.

By any means necessary, I am for Africa.

In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.

My sons are very protective and loving towards me, but I don't know what's in their secret minds about me.

I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

This mix of love and hate, this blend of trust and hurt I have for him is so confusing even I can't understand it.He leaves, and I break.

Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure.

Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.

A song or an album is never really done. You can work on it forever, but knowing when to call it a day and knowing when to walk away from it is extremely important.

Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.