Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.

These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim.

Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

There is nothing like marriage, for two who love one another.

The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.

Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?

I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.