Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

My future depends mostly upon myself.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.

Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

It would be Spiderman. I'd love to be Peter Parker.

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money...

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.