When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

What do you mean, You have No Dreams?The Truth is, you have No Courage.

In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.

In politics guts is all.

For thy sake tobacco I Would do anything but die.

I think it's important that models be healthy.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

I've always been into leopard print. No joke, when I was 14 years old I wanted my entire room to be covered in it.

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

Don't imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that's a way of avoiding knowing yourself.