“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” -Abraham Lincoln Tweet

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” -C.S. Lewis Tweet

“One sure measure of a society’s relative health is its suicide rate. If a society produces large numbers of people who destroy themselves, that society cannot be described as successful under any reasonable definition of the term. Well-adjusted people, people who culturally know, ever so unobtrusively, how to simple be don’t kill themselves.” -Randall Robinson […]

“The suffocating preoccupation with the acquisition of fame and fortune has directed untold numbers of helpless unreflective unfortunates to search down the wrong streets for psychic sustenance, resulting in a rabid competition of the lost between the unhappy failures and the unhappy successes, the former comparing its troubled insides to the latter’s well-varnished outsides.” -Randall […]

“Sometimes they insult our Black women in ways we don’t even realize, it’s almost on code. What I mean by code is, for example, when a White man dresses like a woman, he is called a transvestite or a cross dresser. But when RuPaul dresses like a woman, the same media refers to him as […]

“For what is the value of democracy if our opinions are formed, our appetites manipulated, and our values shaped, our decisions made, our most fundamental needs camouflaged by the puppet-masters of politics and profit?” -Randall Robinson Tweet

“Although America has only one-twentieth of the world’s population, we consume 67 percent of the world’s drugs. So now you know the rest of the world doesn’t have the drug problem that America has. We must then ask ourselves, is this the price we pay for racism? Is this the price we pay for putting […]

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there’s a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof […]

“If more athletes, coaches, and trainers would incorporate nutrition into their daily routine the way they do physical exercise, they would stand a better chance of becoming champions. Because they don’t, the average life expectancy of a professional athlete is fifty-four years of age. Believe it or not, many a wino’s life expectancy is longer […]

“Somewhere in the annals of European literature someone wrote that ‘ignorance is bliss;’ but in the ancient record of African philosophy is the belief that ‘ignorance is sinful.’ Most of us have been conditioned to live our lives in a sinful state of blissful ignorance while thinking we were actually being saved. If we equated […]