We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

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.

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

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.

Our hearts are bound together, ' he said, 'and I am free to decide who I love. And what I want. Nothing - not the pressure of my family, or what anyone else thinks - matters.

I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.

… mess is the material from which life and creativity are built …

I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

I can talk myself so much into my part.

Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.