If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

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.

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.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

I Love Spirituality it reminds me of the Old Quaker Oats Commercial. "Nothing is better for thee than me"!

What Mrs. Schuyler is saying, " General Schuyler added, "is that it is the Schuylers who would be honored by a union woth so brilliant and noble a personage as Colonel Hamilton.

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

You can't lose yourself.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

When a man calls himself an atheist, he is not attacking God; he is attacking his own conscience.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

Only a habit can subdue another habit.

The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.

You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.