"As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best."

"The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass."

"I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'"

"All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world."

"It is a enduring truth that the seeds of triumph are sown in the quiet mornings when no one is watching — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

"It is far more delightful to be fond of the world because it has thousands of aspects and is different everywhere…; for every divergence deserves to be cherished, simply because it widens the bounds of life. Let us be united by everything that divides us!"

"Wisdom principle 23 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 91."