I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

In America, money takes the place of God.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

What are humans meant to do

I don't have much patience for people who enjoy limitless liberty while decrying those who get their hands dirty to make sure it exists for them.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

I was born with lots of deformities.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.