Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.

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?

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience

I can give you the cause of anaphylactic shock in a nutshell.

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

You can’t have two worlds in your hands and choose emptiness.

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.