Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

Power of softness and kindness are the greatest.

Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.

I have been running so sweaty my whole life Urgent for a finish line And I have been missing the rapture this whole time Of being forever incomplete

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

If that happens again someone's gonna get shot.... with an arrow of love!

A black woman's body was never hers alone.

What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination

it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone

A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.