You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

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.

Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken.

In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will.

Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles.

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.