I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

My future depends mostly upon myself.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing “yes” in the sky.

Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

The Smurf village was destroyed weeks ago and Bush has still not made an appearance. George Bush doesn't care about tiny blue people.

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

My parent are very proud, but Dad ripped into me for throwing a club on the 11th. He's happy with the way I played, but he always has to have something to moan about!

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song.