I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

There are no dots in Tee'sOr cross in eye'sThere is no connect in child neglect

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

Sight is where the eye hits.

We always use resin instead of polyurethane, even though it takes more work and is in places where it can't be seen, because resin tends to be more UV stable than urethane.

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

I am addicted to any facial product that's anti-aging.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.