Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

Stop giving complaints to people about what you can't do. Start giving compliments to God for what you can do. It'll amaze you

Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.

I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.

I play piano and write better than I can sing.

Later," Fang said to Ella and Dr. Martinez in that gushy, hyperemotional, overdramatic way he has.

Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.

I look forward to spring cleaning and putting things in their place. It's therapeutic for me.