I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

God bless our journey on earth.

Only that 'holy' book which teaches you to love all beings - animals or human things - read. Another one, idiots do, You let go, God speed.

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.

It does require maturity to realize that models are to be used, but not to be believed.

Revival is when God's people return to God and God returns to them, and everyone sees the difference.

Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.

If you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we will have a president that acts like it.

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.