When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

It's time for America to get right.

Belief has nothing to do with facts, especially for the unbelievable facts.

Whether we are trying to buy a packet of chips or getting to know a person for a potentially important relationship, its nice to have an overview of what it/he/she contains. - Of A Sense of Self

How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it?

Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits?

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.

Canada's north is going to change a lot in the new few years. We have every resource imaginable up north.

The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.