to be black is to be very-hot.

They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.

Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to get published and very dangerous.

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

Ideas and their creators run the world…one’s place in the world is due partially to the ideas that a culture has forced on one and/or the ideas that a person “freely” accepts and uses.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing

It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive, and that is who I am dead.

I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.

Are you the same woman I brought here, Sasha? You're like a kid at Christmastime."--Monroe"You would be, too, if someone fulfilled your most secret fantasies."--Sasha

I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality.

I am a conservative because I know that no one of us is better than any other one of us.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

Canelo wants to test himself and see if he is among the elite fighters. This is a golden opportunity for me, so I'm very, very happy.

I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.