“I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark...” — Sun Ra Quote

“I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.”

“The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.”

“I use music as a medium to talk to people.”

“Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.”

“It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.”

“A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.”

“I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.”

“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.”

“If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.”

“To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.”

“I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.”

“If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.”