Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.

If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed

I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.

Don't give up! Don't give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.

When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.

And you should never cut your hair 'cos I love the way you flick it off your shoulders

I think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit.

Let's face the music and dance.

Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.