The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.

Oh, I never look under the hood.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.

In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.

Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.