Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

Saying of the ProphetDistributionGod it is who gives: I am only a distributor.

Make yourself indispensable and you'll be moved up. Act as if you're indispensable and you'll be moved out.

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

Every election, Mickey Mouse looks better and better as President.

The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

Everybody has a right to their God-given purpose.

In answer, she took his hand and placed it on her chest. Right over her heart. 'You're in, Cade Morgan. Only you.

Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.