I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames.

When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.' 'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.

A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.

What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.