You cannot legislate an attitude.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.

Great marriages are like the Higgs Boson particle, its existence has been theorized, but no one has ever seen one.

Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

There is no greater threat to America than Islam.