The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.

The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.

The black man in America's position is parallel with that of the Jews, especially when the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. And at no time did Moses in the Bible ever try and integrate the Hebrews into the Egyptian society or accept any hypocritical offers made by the slave master of that day.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.