I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.