Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to get published and very dangerous.

They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?

to be black is to be very-hot.

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

Ideas and their creators run the world…one’s place in the world is due partially to the ideas that a culture has forced on one and/or the ideas that a person “freely” accepts and uses.

The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

We are beginning to see the benefits of globalconsolidation.

We ought not to desire the impossible.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

Six percent, 5 percent of our GDP for him [Vladimir Putin] to match us, he has to spend 25 percent of his GDP and it will bankrupt his country.

The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.