When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Actually, the world and America is upset and the only way to bring about a change is to upset it more.

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.

Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?