I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

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.

The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people’s heads.

Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being.

What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?

Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.

Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.

I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.

A person who dreams for a long time becomes similar to his/her dreams

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.