The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

It is important to expose yourself to ideas you don't agree with from time to time. Attend a political rally of a party you do not like.

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.

I'd like to thank everyone for supporting me and making me believe in my work.

I would like to be invisible because I'd love to go into people's houses and see their interior decorating.

Love is not a magic gravity that keeps everything up.