Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

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.

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

So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.

An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind, " Coral puts in quietly.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Happiness doesn't come from external circumstances. It comes from the inside-regardless of what is happening around us.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.

Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.

Happy are those who find wisdom... She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.