If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.

I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.

Don't give up! Don't give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!

Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.

If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

Without businesse debauchery.

Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?

Everyone grows, everyone has their moments and stuff.

I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.

It's hard being a white rapper sometimes! When that happens you just need to battle through.