I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.

Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.