My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

No one can stop you from shinning if you are standing in your own light.

Madness is part of all of us all the time and it comes and goes waxes and wanes.

It's like Canada is the little brother to the United States and one day they are going to show the world they're just as cool as their successful big brother.

Turns out, theres not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet.

Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.

There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.

Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.

I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.