We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.

He who learns death unlearns slavery.

The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.