I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

As parents we're meant to help each other out and build each other up.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

But the shortest works are always the best.

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

I'm Sinatra, I'm Frank Sinatra in disguise.