It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

Remember, this is your day and your world.

Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work.

I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone.

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

The laugh left a bitter taste in our mouths, but we laughed out all the same.

My heart is in my/ pocket. It is poems by Pierre Reverdy.

My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

The sun shines upon good and bad alike.

It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas. It's not witchcrafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.