This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.

Change the way people think and things will never be the same

The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth

...when I decided to be fully honest about whatever my heart undergoes, I found immense peace among the chaos of uncertainties. In my honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done

We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

Today, I attended a friend's birthday party dressed as a ninja. I soon discovered that ninjas are very misunderstood.