Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now controls the past. Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now?

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.

When ignorance reigns, life is lost...

'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system I was born to rage against 'em

Your anger is a gift.

The classroom's the last room to get the truth.

I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.

Fools follow rules when the set commands ya...

The intrinsic and extrinsic heart is always at odds, so which heart is yours? For one will bask in true joy, while the other lives in self-loathing misery.

I'm only human, and I bleed when I fall down.

I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

If I don't get a Wahlburger in me soon, I'm gonna go ballistic.

Want to accomplish something, any-damn-thing? Sharpen your political skills!

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?