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

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.

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.

It's time for America to get right.

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

Begin to increase your gift, talent, potentials, self-development if you want to be prosperous

Writers need to be open to trying new things. My first bestseller was a cookbook, and from that experience I learned things about marketing a book that benefitted me greatly.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words.

Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity.

Suppose I could shoot myself in the mouth, but what if I miss? People will laugh at me.

Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.

To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.

I'm concerned about people being happy.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.