You can see in our churches most of the males are pastors. Most of the deacons are males. But if the woman withdrew her support from our churches, you'd have to close the doors.

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.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship.

He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in what?""God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival.

All I wanted was a man who could love and who loved me, who I could share my secrets with and know his.

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.