The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.

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.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

He didn't try to take the net off its hinges with that header.

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

I think we are living in pretty scary times and people are looking for inspiration and are also more open to the spiritual possibilities.

The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

I don't think I have a superiority complex. I have a "you're not Thom Yorke" complex.

Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.