I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

A million dollars? For a cow?

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

Don't fear sharing your best ideas online: 1) Competition already knows what you are up to 2) People like leaders not followers.

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.

Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179)

Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

It is a very vulnerable feeling to lose something very close to your heart or someone very dear to you.