If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

My future depends mostly upon myself.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known

I was always this guy who appreciated and loved women and supported them and all those little things that were female-skewed, strong women parts.

I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

God save me from idealists.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.

Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated.