“from Assata's time cooking at the free breakfast program for kids:One little girl came over to me and tapped me on the back. 'There's something wrong with your pancakes.''What's wrong with them?''They don't taste good.”

“Something must be wrong with me to stop a good girl-on-girl fight”

“For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down.”

“There must be something terribly wrong with me that I'm unable to find joy in the world of work." He always wrote. And of course all his friends were forever saying to him "What's wrong with you that you can't get this wonderful program?" Perhaps you understand for the first time now that my role here is to bring you this tremendous news, that there's nothing wrong here with YOU. You are not what's wrong.”

“Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.”

“Something really is wrong with me. And I don't know what it is.”