One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.

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?

Smiles show fullness of a joyful soul.

Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?

I wish to keep writing.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

Hungry bellies have no ears. [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Never lift. Never stop believing.