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

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!

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

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.

Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made.

Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first time, he was uncomfortable with the idea of having complete power over her

Freedom for the working class!

If you want to see why President Obama is worried this November, watch The Hope and the Change.

The family is the most important unit in time and in eternity and is ordained of God.

It's a great feeling to be a part of something - see it from beginning to end - and it's a rare thing that anyone gets to do in any business.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.