White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.

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.

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.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.

There's been this attempt to block Donald Trump, in primary candidates and Democrats, that - to try to make everything he says some sort of extreme overstatement.

It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.

I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.

Climate change is, over the longer term, our greatest national security challenge. We have to do all we can to slow it down and to prepare for and ameliorate its impact.