The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.

Change the way people think and things will never be the same

The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

During Uthman's caliphate, a Muslim embassy was sent to China to establish diplomatic relations

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.

But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in.

I love my fans to pieces. They're with me. They get it, you know? They get what I'm saying.

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

I'd rather people turn up than not. And of course I'd rather have people be enthusiastic.

Patrick sort of had a very pragmatic, practical, Ed-like approach and went down to see.