I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

Passion is more developed than discovered.

No matter what information you have, no matter what you are doing, you can be wrong.

Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Celebrate what is possible. Your beliefs will create your reality.