Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.
My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.
I ignore [Barack Obama] like I ignore [Louis ] Farrakhan.
To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School].
We're all African-American, so we're all influenced by each other.
[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and Michelle [Obama].
Not all white people are bad.
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it. . . it's just easier if you do.
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.
The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.
Do you know what the largest single cause of death in South Africa is? The largest single cause of death is what in the medical statistics is called external causes and that is violence in the society. For instance I've seen figures that say that if you take the male age cohort from16 to 45 years, 54% of the people who die in that age cohort die from external causes.