I make a special point of working on Thanksgiving Day. I have friends I go out with but I even make it plain to them. The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.

If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.

I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.

Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a test.

Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.