We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now.

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.