I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.

Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

We love because it's the only true adventure.