There is no color line in art.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

You will find the peace, not by looking outside, but by changing your thoughts, feelings and perception inside.

I had become an arrow of sound aimed at the most terrible creature in the city.

I am not stopping till my enemies become my friends.

I really learn from something that really inspires me and it becomes something that I remember.

We are stuck with not knowing what our actions will actually lead to.

Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.

Suddenly I realized we must take care of things just because they exist.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.