She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

You can't put a price tag on creativity

ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror big enough—see point one.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.