Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.

When I say, 'I don't care what white people think,' I mean that.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else.

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round.

Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you’re sitting in.