Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)

You always question what's new. It's human nature. While everything else, you know, no matter how strange, feels normal because you're trained to see it that way. You're brainwashed.

The back of my hand to guilt.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.

Your attitude is more important than stylish clothes. This comes from believing in yourself. This attitude can define your life.

Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.

Teaching, without learning, is just talking

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?