Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't.

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.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

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Fashions after all are only induced epidemics.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

Sports taught me how to compete on the court, and taught me how to compete in life. Sports and life run parallel with one another.

I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes