You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

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.

I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

The flow of spiritual connectedness and oneness with life will dwell in you if your heart and mind is open and innocent.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.

No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering.

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself