I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

It's not the name they call you, it's the name you answer to.

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

History will treat me right.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!

Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

What are you projecting? How are you showing up? Are you aware of how your expressions are impacting your communication with others?

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

I don't speak up if I'm working. As a model, no one pays me for my opinion. I want to wear whatever will make a great photo, whether I like it or not. But if the shoes are too small, I will complain!

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.

The only person you have to convince is yourself.

Immitation is suicide.

Many people take exception to me and say that I'm doing black magic and things they can't do at church. But I'm doing magic that started their church.