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

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

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

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

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