People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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

To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

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