The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

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.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them.

California: Sunny nutland.

I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close.

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

With all due respect to Taylor Lautner and his 18-pack abs, my werewolf is going to be 100 times cooler!

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.