There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

In simplicity there is truth.

That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time

Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories

People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.

I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.