They can’t even think of freedom because they don’t have the language to.

A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth.

What could be any more correct for any people than to see with their own eyes?

I write-down to speak-up.

Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.

The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.

Your power is in your faith. Keep it and pass it on to other bloods.

When you make an observation, you have an obligation.

Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

If you’re really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world…you should have faith in yourself.

It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Easter is never deserved.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.

There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.