Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

God is Change.Earthseed: The Books of the LivingLauren Oya Olamina

Don't make such decisions whose bad results make you look like you are your own enemy.

Rule #1: Life is supposed to be fun!

A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

There are no great fanfares for the truly great moments of your life. Just dripping taps and the sound of your own footsteps, walking from one room into another

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.