We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.

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.

Tears are God's way of cleansing the heart.

Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary.

Race determines variables that yield results undesirable to one sector, while rendering a noticeable favor to others.

Hate is more felt than love

Politics have no relation to morals.

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire

Most people know what to do, but they don't do what they know - because they haven't found their inner drive. Their passion.