In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

To say ‘I’ where I’ is not - is the greatest illusory attachment (raag).

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.

There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.

Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

When kids come up to me and say. 'I want to be like you,' it fires me up. It's pretty cool.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.