All systems require myths for their longevity.

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.

I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of "I want to tell the people."

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

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.