Now you know where I got my name.

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

From the moment of birth, folks suddenly wanted what others said they could not have. Kids craved the most sugary sweets how alcoholics thirsted for one more drink with the most impactful punch.

Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.

The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye.

He didn't flinch, but in his soul he did.

The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.