“I learned from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed”

“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”

“Every graveyard and every cemetery testify that the Bible is true.”

“I’m the well-trained fruit tree, he thought. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me—all bearing for someone else to pick.”

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

“She suffers and she laughs.”

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

“Employers who understand human nature, get the best there is in men, not by criticism, but by constructive suggestion.”

“...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!”

“I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse.”

“You are never persuasive when you're abrasive.”

“Para llegar a ser ese ganador que naciste para ser, debes planear ganar, prepararte para ello y esperar conseguirlo.”

“We can look at Joseph’s example and realize through good times and bad, we must stay the course, being diligent and enthusiastic about what God brings. If He brings you to it, we must remember, He will bring you through it as well.”

“We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.”

“They, they, they. That was the problem with people like Joyce. They talked about the richness of their multicultural heritage and it sounded real good, until you noticed that they avoided black people. It wasn't a matter of conscious choice, necessarily, just a matter of gravitational pull, the way integration always worked, a one-way street. The minority assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around. Only white culture could be neutral and objective. Only white culture could be nonracial, willing to adopt the occasional exotic into its ranks. Only white culture had individuals. And we, the half-breeds and the college-degreed, take a survey of the situation and think to ourselves, Why should we get lumped in with the losers if we don't want to? We become only so grateful to lose ourselves in the crowd, America's happy, faceless marketplace; and we're never so outraged as when a cabbie drives past us or the woman in the elevator clutches her purse, not so much because we're bothered by the fact that such indignities are what less fortunate coloreds have to put up with every single day of their lives-- although that's what we tell ourselves-- but because we're wearing a Brooks Brothers suit and speak impeccable English and yet have somehow been mistaken for an ordinary nigger. Don't know who I am? I'm an individual!”