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

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.

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.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

You might find me cleverly clad, in black on black, at 28th and 7th Ave.

The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars.

A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.

We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for the way we frame the world.

There was never a question in my mind that I wanted to climb that mountain, no matter what other people said.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

It's Web, and then everything else. It's social media first, and everything else.