Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.

I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.

Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory."

You can only start a boy band if you kill one of the other ones already out there.

Im a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.

New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.

I believe that the Democratic party has a bright future, but that like any long lived entity it needs to address some fundamental issues.

I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.

Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?

Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more.