And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.

In order to discern truth in our hearts, we must unpack the lies".

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.

Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.

I like to have a simple workplace.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.