"The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever."

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."

"I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence."

"Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth."

"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."

"It is a timeless truth that humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect."

"I have a lot of respect for marriage."

"When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break."