I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

There is no graceful way to carry hatred.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.