My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

Everything happening to you now is a signal or symbol and has meaning. Your opportunity is to recognize the meaning and utilize it in your life.

A deep wound inside him began to heal. And he suddenly knew that being separated from this woman would only bring him a certain sadness.

Miracles don't just happen on their own you know, you got to make them happen.

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.

There will never be a nuclear war; there's too much real estate involved.

I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.

Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.

I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.