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.

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.

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.

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. . . .

My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did.

I've come to believe that total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. Anything less, is self-defense.

Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.