The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

The nature of this flower is to bloom.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

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