Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power.

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

I never thought I was cute, ever.

I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye.

Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasn’t got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die, like the banking industry

Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.