You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been.

Remember, this is your day and your world.

It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work.

I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone.

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything as beautiful as you.

Death is the first and final entry in the book of this life.

In June, 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since.

I like the whole laid-back rapping. I wish I could rap! I wish I could wrap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that.

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.

I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

Accepting help is its own kind of strength.

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.

People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.