American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

If you get up everyday and you don't learn you are a fool

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain.

The only person that you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday

Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure.

Travel was a species of warfare.

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.

Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules.