Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

Communication happens on the periphery between two minds while communion melts two beings into one! What are YOU?

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.

I thought I was supposed to have a fake six-pack in this scene

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

If you decide to do comedy that involves risk, risk means risk, and you can't complain of flesh wounds if you sit down at the table to play.

Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance