No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.

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.

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.

Thinking and planning is one side of life

It is a sobering thought that each of us gives his hearers and his readers a chance to look into the inner working of his mind when he speaks or writes.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

I want a girl who lets me do my own thing, but who is going to be by my side the whole time, because I know I'd be supportive of her. And kissing is a big thing for me! You have to be a good kisser.

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.