People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

If you're in high school, just know there is a big world out there and you can be anyone you want to be.

Men who know are secure. Men who don't know believe in luck.

I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.

When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult.

The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world