The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

You will have the last word.' 'Your name will be that word.

He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him

She had a hundred precocious ideas, and some were good and true, but they could never be hers until she found them alone, for ideas are but words unless they are sown in experience.

...so unbelief alone commits sin..Hence Christ calls unbelief the only sin.

I mix them with my brains sir.

Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.