Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me

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?

The thought of you makes my days brighter and my nights filled with dreams.

Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone./Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline./18 and life you got it.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).

People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich.

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.