Love is man’s natural endowment, but he doesn’t know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.
If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
Because I’m a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn’t be a part of it.
Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
If you take 12 waters from the coconut – not the ones you buy in the store, although that’s good – but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.
I don’t know why America always thinks she has to run all around the world forcing people to take our way of governance at the barrel of a gun. When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
Fear and God do not occupy the same space.
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
It’s cool to be healthy.
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
The only person on the planet saying derogatory things about his woman is the black man.
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.