Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

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

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

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.