When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.

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.

A woman will endure many wounds in her lifetime, but the betrayal of a friend is one of the most difficult to overcome.

Your greatest weapon is your MIND! Lock and load it with the greatest ammunition

When hiring, trust your feelings.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it.

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.