We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

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

I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to human being.

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

American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself - as being a free, black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.