I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.