I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Moving is not about forgetting. It's about moving forward and never looking back.

There are days you live through

The problem is yes, everything works. Doing everything at once makes you marginal at everything... at best.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

The appeal to force is the abandonment of reason.

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever.

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

New York is like America with the volume turned up to 10.