I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

Give light, and people will find the way...

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die.

I listened to make sure I was meeting the minimum requirement to stay out of jail, so to speak.

You are what you eat, but eventually you become what eats you.

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.

I don't look at a lot of design. I try to stay focused on making sculptural art pieces and somehow translating them into design.

Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.

I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.