I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

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 keep forgetting how important it is to just be still sometimes. Without a phone, or a TV, or a friend. Alone. Quiet. Connected to nothing, and everything, all at once. Undistracted

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.

What if today.. you were inspired and fed by your thoughts instead of being confined by them?

I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.

The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous.

The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.

I'm not going to make it a target, but it's something to aim for.