I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Remember that I’m still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won’t let you out.

Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.

I want to be held accountable. I want my teammates and my coaches to push me to be the best that I can be.

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

Age is just a number. Who cares how old the girl is that I date?

My problem is desserts. I am obsessed with desserts.

Focusing is all about saying no