Develop a benovolent world view;look for the good in the people and circumstances around you.
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
Before you hate something you should try to understand it.
You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.
Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.
The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.
Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.
So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said "African" instead of "Nubian" or "Black" or "Kemet" or "original" or "Israelite," don't be so foolish. I say "African" because the continent of Africa is the land from which we all originate. It is the word that we are most familiar with right now.
Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.
You can't predict how much time you will get to embrace your opportunity. You have to go after it with everything you have in you, sacrifice and believe.
There are so many of us that just do things to pay bills, but I never wanted that to be me.