Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?

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 goal is to be rich, not to look rich.

God’s blessings causes the other person to pay attention to you and favor you

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

I'm a simple, simple man.

There is a great difference between a young man looking for a situation and one looking for work.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.