Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

It's not the name they call you, it's the name you answer to.

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

History will treat me right.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!

Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.

I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.

I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch movies.

I can cry at the drop of a hat. I've always found that easier than laughing in films.

When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

An armed society is a polite society.

I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.