The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing.

I'm always moving forward.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becomes normal.

The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

I fall down and my palms split open against the gravel. Injuries on the outside are easy to endure and I get up without hesitation.

I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.

If you truly love someone, then the only thing you want for them is to be happy....even if its not with you.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.