We 've lost something else: the relationship between men and women.

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.

We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

I'd much rather resign than be pushed.

In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.

Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is] mythology rather than science.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

You need to be dedicated to your workout, whatever you choose.