To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

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

I think many times we charge the Lord for things we can do ourselves. If only we realized how well we have been equipped.

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.