When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

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.

It's fine to feel truer than others.But it's much truer to fix our fault.

you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.

Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.

I was on the playground all night. I ain't never go to parties or nothing. I'd get out of school at 3 and be out there playing until one in the morning with one streetlight. For real.

Cigarettes don't kill people - cancer kills people.

The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end