She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.

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 degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.

You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

We have to understand and explain to each other what blackness is.

It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.