Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself

The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.

I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.

Now I’m floating like a butterfly Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes I went from zero, to my own hero

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.

But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.

I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown

I believe in spiritual technology.