This blessed gift of smoking!

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.

Virtue knows no color line.

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

The house you built can cave you in if you didn't do it right.

Everything is wrong.I am alive.

I've always wanted to have kids. I do think I would be a great mom.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.