We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

My future depends mostly upon myself.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

The beauty of being alive is that each day you are given another chance to correct what you did wrong and improve on what you can do right.

That's what I wanted. Something to enrich me, to make me feel better about the things in my life that I could never change." - Page 56

Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.

Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I think you know that nothing has ever passed away, not entirely.

Reality is infinitely complex, yet it is designed to experience in simplicity.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Mike Tyson always had a big heart, but one of his problems is that he's short. And he's got kind of a personal attitude. But that don't make him a great fighter.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

I never changed anything, except my socks and my underwear. And I never did anything to glorify myself or improve my lot. I took what came and did the best I could with it.