King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

I am not a criminal, for I destroyed a bad man. I thought I was right.

I guess a lot of bands play around until they come up with something they like.

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place.

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.

...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.