The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves as so inadequate that they feel forced to wear a mask in order to continuously impress the other. I do not want to "hold" you, I want you to "stay" out of your own need for me.

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Everybody changes, not just me.