“I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.”

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.

All over this world people are standing up for freedom.

How can anyone be against love?

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

You can’t have capitalism without racism.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.

How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows.

Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I’ll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it’ll make me stronger in the end.

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.

Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.

It gets you nowhere if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.