The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.
To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
Politicians promise you heaven before an election and give you hell after.
Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.
I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.
Don’t be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage.
When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.
If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
Neither god nor soul can save society.
If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.
I’m going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I’m not going to be what you want me to be.
Black man, you are on your own.
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.