Publisher Quotes

We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting on God to do everything for us. If God had intended for that, then he would not have given us a mind. Whatever you want in life, you must make up your mind to do it for yourself.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it.

Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

Every man has a right to his own opinion.

Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own.

The white man has succeeded in subduing the world by forcing everybody to think his way....The white man's propaganda has made him the master of the world, and all those who have come in contact with it and accepted it have become his slaves.

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day-in and day-out.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as injustice is done to other peoples, just so long we will have cause for war, and make a lasting peace an impossibility.

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous.

Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.

If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights.

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in the proper assumption and practice of his duties and responsibilities.

The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.

My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner."

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God does not build cities nor towns nor nations, nor homes, nor factories; men and people do that and all those who want must work for themselves and pray to God to give them strength to do it.

We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Africa with 400 million Black People can do it.

If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it then you will DIE. You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good for-nothings, if you cannot do what other men have done, what other nations have done, what other races have done, THEN YOU HAD BETTER DIE.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that.

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.

The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.

News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.

Newspapers should have no friends.

You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.