Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

"There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race."

"What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'"

"Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list."

"Racism isn’t born, folks. It’s taught. I have a 2-year-old son. Know what he hates? Naps. End of list."

"In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves."

"Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging."

"...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts, if I can put it bluntly, than violence. Most violent acts are accomplished by getting the opponent off guard, and it doesn't take that much character, I think, if one wants to do it."

"Any colour - so long as it's black."

"Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race."

"Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!"

"My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims."

"I am against the Islamisation of France."

"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake--you know, to send the right message to kids."

“Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.”

“Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That’s the real point behind it. You can’t have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.”

“My black brothers and sisters – of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs – we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!”