Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, it gives him pleasure

You can shut out the memories and keep going, but you'll have to live with a heart that's healed wrong.

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win

I think that could be a very compromising situation where people naturally may do things that may not be in the interest of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved.

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.