With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

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.

I hate goblins.

By becoming more unhappy we sometimes learn how to be less so.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.