Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

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?

We call this a sweet life

virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.

Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.

My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.