I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

Always make sure your heart is bigger than your head.

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!