Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

From one end to the other I have identified with various forms of spirituality. I was a Jew, then a God-hater. I was an atheist, then a Christian, for which I was called a traitor.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

It's like a banana farm for guns!

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

Stay worry-free. Show love and you get love.

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.