We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

The uncertainty of life got me thinking about the importance of constants in our lives.

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.

There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends before its time, I find it hard to move on.

The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.