Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.

Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

But he thought that if the world was layered with meaning, then she was the evidence, right here.

I've never seen the allure of being famous, because I know what that's like. It's part of work.

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

I'm a bit of a potty mouth. My dad used to wash out my mouth with soap, but that was just to get rid of any traces of his DNA.

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.