Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism.

Some dream and dream but their dreams remain dreams...

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

If you're gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.

I like rules. Without them, we don't know what to break.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

To one who knocks, the door will open.

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.