Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

No truth, no light.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

True honesty is what you are willing to admit to yourself without judgement!

To find true love simply one must just adore.

Her eyes were a bottomless ocean that I would give up air to explore.

I might not have the ability to ever carry a child and I have this damn bag for the time being – but I'm alive.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.

You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.