“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides.

We discover ourselves through others.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

A man’s hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

Nothing is possible without love, For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.

Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide.

Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

I’m unconscious while I’m acting. I live the role and am not myself.