I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

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But it's the simple and the good that are meant to suffer in this world—ain't it, though!

I never stopped loving you, I continued loving you in a different way.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don't like television cameras, but an interview is OK.

The thing is to dazzle

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.

Everything is beautiful in it's own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day. And everybody's beautiful in their own way. Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find the way.