The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.

America faces a new race that has awakened.

Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.

I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.

The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really,...that's the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn't filled with them, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express?

I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.