People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.

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.

Think of who has shaped your life and where you have come now in the present.

How may times can you lose the one you love?

For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.

How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

The show must go on all over the place or something.

Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.

Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.

I knew when they [with Adolf Hitler] had been fighting because Eva [Braun] always reacted the same way. She would lock herself in her bedroom and cry and cry, sometimes for a long time.

A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.