I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.

You're seventeen now. You can do...absolutely nothing you couldn't already

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.