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Cause nothing really is and everything really isn’t.

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

Those who fight in God's cause will be victorious.

Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond 'Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?

Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

I was always a good housekeeper. Whenever I divorced I always kept the house.

One finger up, and I'm out Cause you ain't even worth two

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.

Today I didn't even have to even use my A.K ! I got to say it was a good day

When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own.

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.

You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don't let these people fool you.

Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.