Some other black political leaders scolded me. I told them that no one has a right to call himself a leader unless he dares to lead.

It's not about supplication, it's about power. It's not about asking, it's about demanding. It's not about convincing those who are currently in power, it's about changing the very face of power itself.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

One cannot accomplish anything without fanaticism.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.