"Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery."

“You just gotta be who you are, and I think it's time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call 'em gangs.”

“What is essential is invisible to the eye,”

“An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.”

“No nation respects a beggar.”

Source : Elijah Muhammad (1973). “Message to the Blackman in America”, p.229, Secretarius MEMPS Publications

“I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.”

Source : "Interview: Garth Ennis And Aaron Campbell on Bringing 'The Shadow' To Dynamite". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. January 19, 2012.

“You weren’t created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions; you were created to be really alive.”

“I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.”

“I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.”

Source : Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Take Root Media