Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

The Negro was invented in America.

Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision.

Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.

By being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves.

Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words.

Any time a customer comes into contact with any aspect of a business, however remote, is an opportunity to form an impression.

If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.

I'm very, very jealous of guys who just go and decide to party and then can work the next day.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

True love never forces.

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.