The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.

Anxiety's already tingling my skin.

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with priviledge and position.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.

One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.

I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality.

The key to winning is poise under stress.

I am always thinking music.