We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage.

It is irritating when someone talking to me, When she is not talking

Small kindnesses small courtesies small considerations habitually practiced in our social intercourse give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.

Prayer is the link that connects us with God.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.

If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.

What we know is far less important than what we use.

As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.