Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

My future depends mostly upon myself.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

My purpose is to serve a purpose to humanity

There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up

She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened--hard to live with it.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

A person may look strong on the outside, but may need another's emotional support.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

The job is not the work.

Everyone in my family was a very serious worker, always with a determination to provide for each other.

How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?