Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it's publicized that we do something, if it's something of the nature of giving, we'll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being always criticized no matter what you do.

If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

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.