There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

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.

Don’t start. I saw Marcie climb inside your Jeep.”“She needed a ride.”I adopted a hands-on-hips pose. “What kind of ride?”“Not that kind of ride, ” he said slowly.

At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

Everything that happens to you is self-created.

This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield to tyranny.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views.

I must have been Cinderella. It was nice...I was so happy...I guess it's already midnight.

To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you.