I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

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 require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.

I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time.

The mind is an untrained child you got to teach what to do.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with.

I'm a very emotional player. I use emotion because my team feeds off it.

I had some really great experiences doing overdubs.

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?