I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.

You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

I disagree with a lot of things, but hey, what a person does is between them and their maker. I can disagree with somebody, and I can still be friends with them.

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

There were no ugly people in Ethiopia

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.