Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

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?

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

John the Baptist pretending to be Karl Marx.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

I spent my life learning to feel less.

I don't care that no one has successfully defended the (light heavyweight) title. I care about preparation, training and getting inside the cage to fight.

I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself.

What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.