What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

it's good to have things done withwhen they don't workit's also good not to hateor even forgetthe person you've failed with.

This is, perhaps, the greatest challenge of our time – to love in the absence of any immediate rewards for our love.

He has enough who is contented with little.

The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.

Journey into the beautiful dream that is life...the end is only the beginning.

Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.