I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.

Photographs shape the past in our own image.

I've already been married six times in my career as an actress - twice as Becky - so I think a wedding of my own might feel too much like work!

Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.

MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

If two people can love each other without even speaking the same language, age and numbers are even easier to overcome.

The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.

I exercise at the gym with a trainer. I feel it's very healthy, very important - important for everybody. I feel it's good for you. It makes you feel better. It loosens you up a little bit.

Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be.